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Cecily Winter
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Dog Love
This is the second Adrian Walker apocalyptic novel I read in two days, and I could barely put down.
I loved Mr. Walker's flawed but shining heroes and sincerely loathed the irredeemable baddies. (If you crave deep ambiguity in your British characters, you may want to stick to literary fiction.)
The narrative voice alternates between that of middle-aged Reginald, an electrician who appears to be quas Read more of this blog post »
I loved Mr. Walker's flawed but shining heroes and sincerely loathed the irredeemable baddies. (If you crave deep ambiguity in your British characters, you may want to stick to literary fiction.)
The narrative voice alternates between that of middle-aged Reginald, an electrician who appears to be quas Read more of this blog post »
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Madame Gray's Vault of Gore
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Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2018
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Space Brides, LLC
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The Many Ways of Heartbreak
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Antiquities in Peril: The Whimsical Adventures of Catkin White Willow
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Beyond Revenge: The Search for True North
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The Extraordinary Adventures of an Ordinary Girl
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The Throwaway Gods Redeemed
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Cecily’s Recent Updates
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I have read this book at least three times, but this latest reading and my dismay come on the heels of two new insights that throw serious shade on the British Raj and Kim's place in the "Great Game." Of course, I always knew the history of British op ...more |
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| It is true, as several contemporary critics write, that Mr. Lewis has not truly written a novel in "It Can't Happen Here," and, in fact, it quickly made it to the stage as a popular play. The text is more a political and moral screed than a tradition ...more | |
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| While this speculative novel involves living and dead populations (with monsters), it is set in the early 20th Century, and features, among other historical figures, Stalin and Franco. Perhaps their lives were grim, but the fictional characters also ...more | |
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When I was a teen, our English teacher made us describe a instance of chilling horror -- Anne chose a fatal stabbing with a penknife. I wasn't at all sure I could get beyond the dark humor of that. The author has a similar problem with his horrific al ...more |
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| I am astonished by Margaret Atwood's eye for detail and her ability to so cleverly probe the minds of her characters and bring to the reader our consciousness of other lives. This novel begins as a bildungsroman about a young girl called Elaine. Her ...more | |
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Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
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| Be prepared to see your worst fears realized and the funniest known and hidden stories about Republican presidents and vice-presidents, starting with "barren" brain Ron Reagan and on through the 4th-grade reader, Donald Trump. Can we blame the nation ...more | |
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| Burleigh's writing is pointed and often poignant. Her best character in this book is a precocious child--Avis Anne--who is teaching herself about nature and reporting on her mother, her father, a bespoke friend Rupert, and various individuals in her ...more | |
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| I was impressed by the author's addressing of Somali immigrants' maladjustment to life in Maine, USA, through the lens of a dysfunctional family. I learned far more about Somali culture--albeit from a dispassionate American perspective--than I'd lear ...more | |
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I admire Nina Burleigh's tough prose (as I admire her nonfiction Substack "Freakshow" writings, in which she has shown herself to be something of an expert on Jeffrey Epstein, and also has a book published about Trump's wives). "Zero Visibility" is a ...more |
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