Category: Book Review

Book Review: Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë I was supposed to have read this in high school, and I read just enough of it at the time to go “boooooarrrring!!” and fake my way through the rest of the semester. So now that I’m an adult and more tolerant of difficult literature, I decided to give it …

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Book Review – Lassiter

Lassiter by Loren Zane Grey I picked this book because I wanted to borrow an audiobook from the library and didn’t know what I wanted. How about a western? Isn’t there an author Zane Grey? So, this isn’t by Zane Grey senior, which I didn’t know until I borrowed it. I basically picked it because …

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Book Review – The Dinner

The Dinner by Herman Koch “It was okay” is the phrase which most accurately describes how I feel about this book. It was described as Europe’s answer to GONE GIRL (a book I very much enjoyed). I was wondering how a book that was not an epistolary from the viewpoint of a missing woman could …

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Book Review – Winter People

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon I really liked this book, and am glad that I have found a new author to follow when I’m in the mood for something creepy and dark. I think “winter people” are like the opposite of “summer people” which is to say, the opposite of people who are only …

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Book Review – Clean Sweep

Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews Andrews* manages the difficult feat of making “magic-using young woman has interactions with sexy vampire and sexy werewolf” into something unusual. Dina Demille is an innkeeper, which is not as prosaic as it sounds. She has a magic broom, missing parents, and a long-term guest who likes to talk about …

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