As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary ElwesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I have been eyeing this book ever since it was first published in 2014, but waited patiently for the paperback version before finally adding it to my ever growing library. Even before I began reading it last night at around 7pm I knew that it would become one of my favourites instantaneously. An engaging, well-written and honest autobiography, As You Wish is a treasure that keeps the reader captured until the last page.I have to say that biographies and autobiographies are not my very first choice of reading material, even…

The Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyMy rating: 2 of 5 stars I couldn’t sleep this morning, so I decided to ring in the month of October and the season for reading spooky stories with The Halloween Tree.Contrary to popular opinion, it was a real let down for me. I read a few unfavourable reviews that stated the same problems I had with this story: confused writing style, no clear organization of what the main point of this story was actually supposed to be and just plain boring.I have to admit, throughout some of the very elaborate and repeated descriptions of whatever was going on I began to skim read. That…