The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

I was assigned The Picture of Dorian Gray, and like many students, I don’t read what is assigned at the time, but I get to it eventually. And it’s not like I was completely clueless as to what was going on in it, I had read just the right amount to write a great essay

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Uploading a book review on Christmas I think is perfectly suitable, after all, ’tis the season and it’s the perfect book to curl up with prior to sitting down with the family. I grew up watching the different versions of this – mainly The Muppet Christmas Carol one that aired on Disney annually and when

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

A short story like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is always pleasant to read. Likely due to the overall shortness of it. The plot doesn’t drag on and nothing is left unsaid at the end. The story itself follows a few character, all doctors, who are trying to figure out where

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Oh my this book took forever. Dracula seemed to take me a fair bit of time to read, let’s face it, there is only so many vampire books that I can read in a year. Also, it is not the most comfortable text to hold, there are many pages and the binding was relatively stiff,

The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

I was in the cinema a while back and the trailer for this film came up. I immediately knew I needed to see it at some point, but felt it necessary to read the novel that it is based on. Before, and after, the trailer, I had seen the paperback here and there, primarily in