Category Archives: Adult

A Summing Up of March Titles

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Thistle

I did a lot of skim-reading in March. I don’t usually write reviews of skim-read books, and I don’t include them as part of my year’s reading list. However, because I haven’t finished a non-skim-read book since February, I decided … Continue reading →

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Rosmersholm; The Christmas Hirelings (audio)

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Thistle

I listened to a couple short classics (one play, one novella) a couple weeks back. Since they were both short and my thoughts on them are equally so, I decided to review them both in the same post. The two … Continue reading →

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The Eating Instinct, by Virginia Sole-Smith

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Thistle

Subtitled: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America When the author’s first child stopped eating as an infant, she had to relearn everything she knew about food and hunger. In researching this, she moved into researching food culture in … Continue reading →

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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Thistle

From the book flap: Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some … Continue reading →

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The Retreat, by Mark Edwards

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Thistle

Lucas is off to a writers’ retreat in Wales, very near where he spent the first few years of his life. He’s a horror writer hoping for inspiration, but doesn’t expect the house of his retreat to be embroiled in … Continue reading →

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Gut Reactions, by Simon Quellen Field (audio)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Thistle

Subtitled: The Science of Weight Gain or Loss Two notes before I begin. First, this is not a diet book or a self-help book. This is a book (primarily) about body science, dealing with the complexities and intricacies that make … Continue reading →

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An Unwanted Guest, by Shari Lapena

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Thistle

A collection of guests are snowed in at a quaint luxury hotel in the Catskills. When one of them dies, it looks like an accident…but then another is quite obviously murdered. Terror ensues. I grabbed this one off my library’s … Continue reading →

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Callback: Return of the Native

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Thistle

Back in 2010, I read Return of the Native for the first time. A few comments about that. First, it was my first read of Hardy since Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 2006. I’d been scared to read more by … Continue reading →

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Protected: Someone Like Me, by MR Carey

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Thistle

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Song of Blood and Stone, by L. Penelope

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Thistle

The barrier between a magic land and a non-magic land is breaking. War threatens. Out in a remote cabin on the non-magical side, Jasminda is unaware of the impending danger. Her entire family has passed away before her, and she … Continue reading →

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