Mostly depressing, but a good story.
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ToadyNerd finished reading The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb
ToadyNerd rated Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises: 2 stars
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
24th edition
ToadyNerd finished reading Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
24th edition
I didn't really like it. I couldn't relate to the characters at all. There really wasn't much of a story.
I didn't really like it. I couldn't relate to the characters at all. There really wasn't much of a story.
ToadyNerd rated The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey: 3 stars
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey is a 2015 non-fiction book by Rinker Buck, author of Flight of Passage …
ToadyNerd finished reading The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey is a 2015 non-fiction book by Rinker Buck, …
Very long winded and slow moving (I guess like the trip), but there was definitely interesting in parts.
ToadyNerd rated The big burn: 4 stars
The big burn by Timothy Egan
Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts …
ToadyNerd rated The Thing in the Woods: 5 stars
The Thing in the Woods by Margery Williams Bianco, Harper Williams
A weird murder mystery that takes place in the Pennsylvania woods. A doctor just out of medical school takes over …
ToadyNerd rated The Adventures Of Roderick Random: 3 stars
ToadyNerd rated The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: 4 stars
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, #3)
Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a …
ToadyNerd rated Journey to the Center of the Earth: 3 stars
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (Extraordinary Voyages, #3)
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to …
ToadyNerd rated The Midnight Library: 3 stars
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides …
ToadyNerd rated The Sun Also Rises: 2 stars
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
It's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran working as a journalist, is hopelessly …
ToadyNerd rated Great Expectations: 3 stars
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an …
ToadyNerd reviewed The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
My favorite Sherlock Holmes mystery!
5 stars
A very engaging and suspenseful mystery with a spooky setting.