Bookworm : The Great Gatsby

After reading The Paris Wife (in which this book is mentioned) and hearing about the new movie coming out this summer, I decided to brush off a classic: The Great Gatsby. I'm pretty sure I had to read this at some point in school, but I honestly don't remember. I will say, I enjoyed it!! I had no idea what was going to happen in the end and I was anxiously turning pages (errr scrolling I guess on my tablet) to see what was going to happen to the great Mr. Gatsby. 

I think I have a mild obsession with the 20s and flappers just based on the fact that the last three out of six books I've read all take place in that time period. I might need to branch out a little bit... anybody have any book recomendations?

PS. Are any of you Goodreads? Come be my friend!!

The Chaperone

I think I love historical fiction. I love reading stories from different time periods that have a glimpse of the truth. With that being said, I loved this book, The Chaperone. It takes place primarily in the 1920s during a time of prohibition, flappers, and silent movies. I thought this book was well written, captivating, and the story line was entertaining. All things I look for in a book. 

The book is about a summer in New York City. Louise Brooks (who is a real person), an ambition teenager from Wichita, Kansas heads to New York with a chaperone to pursue her dream of dance and escaping small town USA. There is so much depth to this story and so many interesting tid-bits about his time period. I loved it. 

I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in a good story, and especially anyone interested in learning about how life was in our country not that long ago.

The Casual Vacancy

If you grew up reading and loving Harry Potter, like me, you might have been anxiously awaiting the release of J.K. Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy. I knew there were be no wizards, Quidditch, or magic, but I was really looking forward to what else could come out of the creative mind of Rowling.

Well, I was definitely not expecting this. In a small town in England, a sudden death leaves an empty seat on the town council. In trying to fill his seat, you learn a lot about all the characters and the secrets they are keeping from each other. There are a lot of British terms, drugs, sex, and an unhappy ending. 

While I am glad I read this book and gave Rowling a chance, this is not my favorite book and I will probably be more hesitant to read Rowling's next non-magical book.

Have any of you read it? It took me a while to really get into it.