On Reading

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell★★★★★ A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric...

“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris★ ★ ★ ☆☆ One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow...

“Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe” by Melissa de la Cruz★☆☆☆☆ Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, from New York Times bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz, is a sweet, sexy and hilarious gender-swapping, genre-satisfying re-telling, set in contemporary America and...

“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.”“Stardust” by Neil Gaiman ★★★★☆ Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall—named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn...