Readhead Reviews

Every month we each pick a book we promise to read and review. Our books of the month for November are Susan Fales-Hill’s Imperfect Bliss and Thrity Umrigar’s First Darling of the Morning. Have you guys read either of these? If so, please tell us what you thought in the comments! If not, read along with us and [...]

Every month we each pick a book we promise to read and review. Our books of the month for October are Neil deGrasse Tyson’s The Pluto Files and Amy Smith’s All Roads Lead to Austen. Have you guys read either of these? If so, please tell us what you thought in the comments! If not, [...]

Erik Larson’s national bestseller The Devil in the White City is a unique double biography of opposite characters. The chronology of Daniel Burnham’s creation of the 1893 World’s Fair is sharply contrasted with the life of serial killer H.H. Holmes, who was skulking around Chicago at the same time. Larson’s book attempts to combine historical [...]

Every month we take turns picking one book that all three of us read and review. Our book of the month for February is Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Synopsis from Publishers Weekly: Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit [...]

When I first found out the Book of the Month was going to be a science book, I wasn’t completely thrilled. Science and I do not get along and the idea of reading a 500 page book revolving around all things science did not sound like a good time to me. Luckily, while reading Coming [...]

Every month the readheads pick one book that all three of us read and review. Our first book of the month for 2010(!) is Timothy Ferris’ Coming of Age in the Milky Way (2003 edition). Synopsis from Publishers Weekly: The ancient Egyptians regarded the sky as a kind of tent canopy. Thirty centuries later, astronomer [...]

This month I was really absorbed by other things and put off reading A Game of Thrones until a few days ago. I bulldozed straight through it over the past three days – and boy, is that the wrong way to read this book. I ended up feeling completely swamped by the unending horror and [...]

I’m not really a fantasy person. Or maybe I should say I’m only into fantasy if it’s a young adult book, and even then only if the book comes from an author I have been loyal to for years. But a fantasy book, the first in a long series might I add, thrust at me [...]

First, let me apologize for being so late in posting this review. In addition to the normal stress of Thanksgiving, my mom got married that same weekend, so there wasn’t a ton of time to finish this book or write a review. Trust me, it won’t happen again! I absolutely loved this book. Now, normally [...]

I have a confession to make. When it comes to mysteries, I’m a page-turning machine. I’m a speed-reader. A skimmer, even. I know. Horrible habit. A habit that was only encouraged by the intricate subplots and interwoven narratives of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind. This book for me was like crack to [...]