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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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Tag Archives: mini-review
The Alchemist of Riddle and Ruin, by Gigi Pandian (audio)
Zoe’s friend Heather is confronted by what she believes is the ghost of her teenage best friend, Riddle (Ridley), who was murdered 16 years before. Zoe doesn’t believe in ghosts, and knows it’s more likely – though still not terribly … Continue reading
Ghost 19, by Simone St. James (audio)
It’s 1959, and Ginette has been sent to upstate NY by her doctors “for her mental health,” where she becomes trapped in a house haunted by its past. This is another story that leans heavily on the trope of watching … Continue reading
A Turn of the Tide, by Kelley Armstrong (audio)
In this third volume of the Time Stitch series, Miranda sneaks off to the time stitch only to find herself not in the 21st century, but back in the 18th. She’s just in time to stop a murder that she’s … Continue reading
Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas (audio)
As this is the sixth book in the Lady Sherlock series, I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail. We’ve reached the point in the Sherlock series (if I understand the original Sherlock) where Holmes has come … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, gender studies, historical, mini-review, revisiting, RIP-worthy
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Two Short Nonfiction Books
I read both of these over the weekend – two short little nonfiction books that I’ve decided to mini-review because I don’t have much to say about either of them. Community Cats – Anne Beall Subtitled: A Journey Into the … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, KonMari, mini-review, nonfiction, translation
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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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April Mini-Reviews
Very little reading happened in April, but here are some mini-reviews of the things that got read in the corners of busyness! Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor This is a sci-fi future-world story of a girl who is somehow infected … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Adult, Prose
Tagged Africa, audio, historical, mini-review, nonfiction, RIP-worthy, speculative, WTF moments
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The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley
Five floors, nine residents, one missing. Jess arrives to join her brothers in his Paris apartment, but he’s gone. None of the other apartment residents seems to know what happened to Ben, but they also don’t seem to be telling … Continue reading
Love & Other Disasters, by Anita Kelly
Dahlia has quit her job to participate in an amateur cooking competition called Chef’s Special. Along the way, she hopes to find herself. What she doesn’t expect to find is love. London agreed to be on Chef’s Special in hopes … Continue reading
American Portrait, by Multiple Authors
Subtitled: The Story of Us, Told by Us This is a collection put out by PBS about people’s lives (mostly**) through the first year of the pandemic. There were various prompts posted online (“The tradition I carry on is…” or … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Adult, Visual
Tagged collection, mini-review, nonfiction, quarantine
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