Read the Best Books First

I distinctly remember receiving When God Writes Your Life Story along with two other books by the Ludys as a gift in high school. Around tha...

Wendell Berry is one of the most highly lauded living authors today. Currently 91 years old, his resumé is a thing to behold. I've been ...

Oh yes. I unapologetically jumped on the bandwagon of people reading this 2021 bestseller in anticipation of the new film adaptation starrin...

I was reading this book a solid year ago (from March to May), but we're finally getting this recap done because I finally  re-watched W...

A few weeks ago, I recapped my first Hemingway and now I've also tackled my first Faulkner, and you guys, I have to say: I haven't ...

Well, I've got my first Hemingway under my belt and it was, as Rory Gilmore warned us way back in 2002 , painful . And I don't mean...

Okay, this book was extremely popular when it was published in 2017, and so many people recommended it to me. I read it last August, and ma...

Here we are again, recapping my most recently finished book. Generally speaking, non-fiction doesn't stay with me as long as good fictio...

The first book I read this year was A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer, and yes it has jumped the line of other recaps I...

Here's the thing about Beverly Cleary: of all the books I've ever read in my entire life, Beverly Cleary can write a book that's...

Y'all. I would read the phone book if Laura Hillenbrand wrote it. I've read Unbroken twice now; I've read her piece in The New ...

Hello there! I think we can all agree that there is no longer any rhyme or reason to this blog.  Do I have eight or nine other recaps sittin...

Well, despite the fact that I have no less than nine recaps sitting in drafts— some still from last year —I've spent this week blogging...

In 2003, the third edition of John Piper's seminal work, Desiring God, was published. It was big that year with one of the circles in my...

Believe it or not, I am still trying to catch up on recaps for books I read last year , and today we're going to cover one of them. Des...

Oh hey there! I let another two months  slip by without blogging a single thing so I'd say it's high time to revive my little corner...

Okay, here's the thing: A Separate Peace was the first book I finished this year, and to be completely 100 with you, it's what threw...