Tag: The School for Good and Evil

Inconceivable! It’s a Princess Bride Book Tag!

Posted September 25, 2018 in Tags // 4 Comments

I love A Princess Bride. The first time I saw it, I was a freshman in high school on vacation with my (obsessed) friend, and I just didn’t get it. I mean, what’s so great about this story? Cheesy romance, overacting, I don’t get it. Then I watched it again. And again. Then I got it – all that was the point. Then I read the book, which is super funny, and now I’m a huge fan. Last year, when Em @ The Keystroke Blog posted this tag, I knew I had to steal it. I couldn’t help myself. It’s been sitting in my […]

May Wrap Up

Posted May 28, 2018 in Checking In // 40 Comments

Sometime in the midst of May, summer arrived! When I left to go to Europe, there was a snowstorm on our tail, following us from New Hampshire all the way up to Manhattan. When I came back, it was 80-degrees outside! That, in a brief description, is New England weather. I love it and I hate it, but overall I’m really glad to see the sunshine. Mentally and emotionally, May is a difficult month for me. I’ll talk about that a little more later, but lets start, as always, with the books! The Monthly Haul The breakdown: ARCs/Freebies from Publishers: The Story […]

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

Posted May 10, 2018 in Reviews // 0 Comments

Ahhhh, complicated reviews are complicated, y’all. On one hand, The School for Good and Evil is a fun fairy tale world with quirky, interesting characters and a secret you spend the whole book impatiently waiting to find out. One the other hand, it’s all very shallow and slow-paced and the little feminist in me dies a bit every time there’s an inference that the princesses watch their waistlines. So, depending on the particular page or chapter, I either enjoyed this book… or it made me cringe. In the beginning, we are introduced to our two main characters (Sophie and Agatha) […]