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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
Deadly Little Scandals, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
This book is the follow-up of Little White Lies. Because I liked the first book, I knew this would be a good one to bring with me on vacation to read on the airplane and throughout the week. No chance … Continue reading
Nightbirds, by Kate Armstrong (audio)
Magic is forbidden by the church, but it lives on deep inside certain women, kept hidden by rich families to do their bidding with a kiss. On the surface, this is the story of three teenage girls forced into a … Continue reading
The London Séance Society, by Sarah Penner
Lenna is a scientist at heart, but after her sister’s murder, she travels to Paris to meet with a renown spiritualist, Vaudeline. Vaudeline has fled London due to the danger posed by unscrupulous fraudsters there. With Lenna at her side, … Continue reading
Posted in 2023, Adult, Prose
Tagged historical, LGBTQIA, mini-review, RIP-worthy, speculative
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The Longest Race, by Kara Goucher and Mary Pilon (audio)
Subtitled: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team From the subtitle of this book, I expected it to be part memoir, part exposé about the Nike Oregon Project. While it is that, the … Continue reading
Posted in 2023, Adult, Prose
Tagged audio, fitness, mini-review, nonfiction, running
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The Neighbor Favor, by Kristina Forest
Lily is an editor’s assistant, dreaming of moving into a different part of the publishing world and struggling to live up to her family’s successes. Nick is a journalist who once published an obscure novel while running from his past. … Continue reading
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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