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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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- Africa
- Asia
- atmospheric
- audio
- BBAW
- body image
- Bra Hunt
- callback
- circus horror
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- collection
- comfort
- Cosmere
- cruise
- divinity
- dream-invader
- education
- end of year
- favorite
- fitness
- food
- gender studies
- goals
- Harry Potter
- health
- historical
- house
- humor
- I made a thing.
- joint review
- KonMari
- Latin America
- LGBTQIA
- lists
- memorable
- Middle East
- mini-review
- multi-read
- nonfiction
- photography
- place-character
- POC
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- quarantine
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Tag Archives: circus horror
Hide, by Kiersten White
I’m not going to give a real description of this book because the more you don’t know, the better it will be. Here are the bare minimums: horror genre without tons of gore, social commentary, a competitive hide-and-seek tournament, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2023, Adult, Prose
Tagged circus horror, dream-invader, favorite, multi-read, psychology, RIP-worthy, speculative
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She is a Haunting, by Trang Thanh Tran
From Storygraph: When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to … Continue reading
Posted in 2023, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged Asia, circus horror, POC, RIP-worthy, speculative
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City of Nightmares, by Rebecca Schaeffer
From Goodreads, because this is hands down one of the most intriguing descriptions for a book that I’ve ever laid eyes on: Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been … Continue reading
Horror Hotel, by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren
Elisa Lam meets Scooby Doo meets RL Stine. TBH, I’m not sure how this book got on my TBR, but it someone landed on my library hold list, possibly based purely on the cover. And somehow, I got the impression … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged circus horror, mini-review, revisiting, RIP-worthy, speculative
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Cuckoo Song, by Frances Hardinge
Triss knows that something is wrong. She doesn’t remember falling into the river. She only remembers waking up, soaking wet, and being cared for by her overly-concerned parents. Her sister seems to hate and fear her, Triss’s stomach is screaming … Continue reading
Posted in 2021, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged atmospheric, circus horror, dream-invader, historical, speculative
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Two Last-Minute Mini-Reviews
So the year is almost over, and I’m pretty much done with anything I might read in 2020. Tomorrow, my end-of-year book post will go up, and I wanted to have everything reviewed beforehand. Thankfully, the last two books I … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, circus horror, historical, mini-review, RIP-worthy, WTF moments
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The Blood Card, by Elly Griffiths (audio)
In this third volume of the Magic Men series, Edgar Stevens and Max Mephisto are called in by the military to investigate the suspicious death of their former commander. Only no one is who they appear to be, everyone has … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, circus horror, historical, mini-review, RIP-worthy
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Smoke and Mirrors, by Elly Griffiths (audio)
In this second book of the Magic Men** series, two children are found dead in the snow, a line of candy leading to them as if in parody of Hansel and Gretel. Fairy tales play a major thematic part of … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, circus horror, historical, mini-review, RIP-worthy
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The Zig Zag Girl, by Elly Griffiths (audio)
From GoodReads: Brighton, 1950. When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, circus horror, historical, mini-review, RIP-worthy
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Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexico, 1950s. Noemí travels out to check up on her newly-married cousin after some strange letters arrived from her at home. She’s “welcomed” into a decrepit old house by a family who believes they are superior to the “local” population … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Adult, Prose
Tagged atmospheric, circus horror, gender studies, Latin America, memorable, POC, RIP-worthy
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