I knew nothing about the premise of Station Eleven before picking it up on Audible. I had only heard great things and saw that the book was getting rave reviews as well as award nominations. I'm so glad I picked it up. Station Eleven is a massive novel. Not in length but in depth. It's also one of the best written novels I've read in a long time. Each line of this book feels like poetry. Its beautiful. Which is shocking given its a post apocalyptic novel about a flu that kills 99% of the worlds population. 

I don't read a ton of spy thrillers. It's a genre that I always seem to enjoy but very few of them actually stick with me. I Am Pilgrim might be one of the few thrillers that will stick with me far after finishing the book. For one thing it's one of the longest thrillers of this type I've ever read. Like I said not my favorite genre but series like Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series usually "rapp" (see what I did there) up in half the time. That keeps action tight and the plot line less susceptible to big gaping holes. 

I'm not the biggest Neil Patrick Harris fan. I've enjoyed his work at award shows and in How I Met Your Mother. But to say that I'm NPH's biggest fan would be a big overstatement. So why buy his autobiography? I genuinely was curious how he would write his "Choose Your Own Autobiography" like the old school choose your own adventure games. 

I've always loved time travel. It's one of my favorite genres. Right up there with apocalyptic and coming of age stories. If you just read the title, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August you could probably see why I picked this one up. The book itself follows (you guessed it) Harry August a man who re-lives his same life over and over again.

I probably only have myself to blame for this, but I was let down by The Girl on the Train. Everyone I know that had read the book before me raved about how it was this year's Gone Girl. So let me stop anyone right there. If you're going into this thinking it's the next Gone Girl you're probably like me going to be disappointed. However if you go into this novel hoping for a good mystery then that is exactly what you're going to get. 

When Jenn was growing up her family read Lord of the Rings together. It's something that she talks about a lot because It meant a great deal to her. Not only did it give her a deep love of JRR Tolkien but it also made her want to bring that tradition over to our family. And since we don't have kids we both decided it would be fun to read together. Picking the right book to read together was extremely tricky. But we wanted something in the fantasy realm that had enough books to get into. What better then Harry Potter a series that Jenn and I have never seen or read but that is beloved by millions? So we dived in.