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Shell McConville
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My furrowed-middlebrow-etc shelf
I have read 10 novels from Dean Street Press and I know I will carry on collecting them. (The 'etc' covers other similar novels.)
In a world of screaming, over-emotional, over-stated, uninformative headlines (in both the traditional and the alternative media) and when very small incidents are over-dramatized and regarded as news (making Everests out of the smallest molehills), the world of these n Read more of this blog post »
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Faith and Fortune: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
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The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas:
"This book just isn't one that appeals to me. I found it to be too long, too sappy, and it requires more than just a stretch of the imagination. The story was unbelievable and unrealistic. I don't mind reading some fantasy or magical realism, but I li"
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"Ew. Are all her books raging liberal like this? Had high hopes for this author but all the political undertones she kept throwing unnecessarily into this story ruined it. For example the MC throws an insult at a minor character about having a KKK mee"
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"What happened to Kate Quinn? From the queen who authored "The Rose Code" and "The Alice Network" we get THIS? I'm so disappointed.
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Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle This novel reminds me a little of a favourite non-GH book (yes, I do have them). Like Sylvester, Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson is an object lesson for authors who base their characters on people around them. This ...more |
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
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