My version of the book review, one on a book that i’m currently reading, and two on my all-time favorite books.
Current read
Right now i’m halfway through A Year in High Heels by Camilla Morton. It’s really a book on everything—a collection of interesting vignettes on fashion, music, literature, and pop culture. There’s a chapter for each month of the year, and each month features a book review, a muse of the month (a short bio on a woman who rocked the world), and a shoe of the month (to boost your fashion IQ!). Camilla also offers advice on everything from how to write a proper thank you note to how to buy a house to how to be A-list for the Oscars.
Vogue calls this book “The must-have guide to year-round fabulousness,” so read it if you want to be fabulous, or already are.
Favorite reads
Anything i’ve read more than once earns a spot in this category, and in recent years, there have only been two. Lots of books have served as good entertainment, but these are my comfort reads, the ones i pick up when i need to feel good, or be inspired:
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I love this book because it’s like a fairytale, but for grownups, or for those who should but aren’t quite ready to grow up yet. Stardust is set in the 1800s in the tiny village of Wall, so named because of the wall at the edge of the town which separates it from a whole other world, a world of magic and strangeness. No one is allowed to pass through the wall, except once in nine years, when people from the other side come to sell strange and exotic goods at the village fair.
Stardust tells the story of Tristran Thorn, son of a farmer and a mother whom he never met, who left him on his father’s doorstep shortly after he was born. Tristran is in love with Victoria, who of course happens to the prettiest girl in the village. To win her heart, he promises to bring her back the falling star they both saw fall on the other side of the wall.
So Tristran goes on this reckless journey on the other side of the wall, and in the process, he finds out that what he thinks he wants isn’t what he really wants.
Stardust is a coming of age story, a story of a boy who discovers that he’s more than a farmer’s son and that he’s destined for more than just the prettiest girl in town. Read it if you’re a hopeless romantic, shamelessly, like i am 
Or if you want to try out one of Gaiman’s lighter novels.
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
This is the third of seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia series, the author’s only works written for children. Coincidentally (or not), this is another coming of age story. It’s about Shasta, a fisherman’s son, and Bree, his talking horse, who both run away to escape a life of slavery. On the way, they meet Aravis, a rich girl, also running away to escape an arranged marriage. In the end, a scared boy discovers that he’s meant for greatness, but not before he learns courage and how to take responsibility for himself and for those around him. A spoiled brat learns to think of people other than herself.
Read it if…you’re just about anyone. I’d actually recommend the whole Chronicles of Narnia series to anyone. It’s classic, imaginative storytelling.
