Some Things I Have Been Reading Recently

The Anonymous Librarian's Recent Reads

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

This was astonishing. I read it at my dad's recommendation after going to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I read it on a plane, and I could not put it down until I finished it. It is so powerful--I can't even really explain my r...

tagged: rated-pg-13, adult, apologist, biography, brilliantly-written, grie...

Etiquette & Espionage

by Gail Carriger

Rated PG. Reminiscent of Patricia C. Wrede's Sorcery and Cecelia series, Gail Carriger's novel is a fresh, fun steampunk novel which features an entertaining, smart heroine who is simultaneously a bit uneducated and pretty observant. F...

tagged: rated-pg, fantasy, feminist, mystery, regency-fantasy, rollicking-g...

Henry IV Part 1 - Classic Illustrated Edition

by William Shakespeare

tagged: rated-pg, adult, classic, college-textbook, drama, great-britain, a...

Henry IV: Part I

by Harold Bloom

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

by Veronica Roth

Rated PG-13 for violence. I have a sneaking suspicion that I have been lured into reading this series under false pretenses, but I still really like it. Divergent is my favorite dystopian series after The Giver, and as far as I am conc...

tagged: rated-pg-13, brilliantly-written, complicated-relationships, cultur...