Category: Book Reviews
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Book Review: The Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse
With well-plotted humor and tons of wordplay it is just fun to read.
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On Writing Well: Part I, Principles
And here are my summary notes, in case you want a William Goldman style “good parts version.” Readers of The Princess Bride know that they are really all the good parts. That’s no different with this book. Read it all if you can.
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Pride and Prometheus: The Post-Perusing Depression of Great Novels
I finished a fantastic book for my Jane Austen book club today. Pride and Prometheus was supposed to be my “reward” for getting work done. But I read a little bit during breakfast–I just wanted to get to the end of the chapter I fell asleep on last night–and I couldn’t make myself put it…
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After On: Audiobook Review
I consumed After On as an audiobook, and as such, I cannot recommend it highly enough. That said, I acknowledge that as a written text I might not have finished it. At times, I noticed that it tended toward sections of dense, wordy, confusing, technobabble. Also, dense, wordy, confusing philosophy, and dense, wordy, confusing real…
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Book Horoscope?
Have you ever heard of a book horoscope before? I hadn’t. But somehow I got signed up for a mailing list from a site called Read it Forward that sends me ideas of things to read. I love books, I love to read, win-win, right? Wrong. Just like any horoscope, I’ve practically convinced myself that…
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Book Review: The Immortalists
Beginning The Immortalists after an astoundingly bad day resulted in intense nightmares. After the second dream of my dead father—deceased Jewish fathers being a major catalyst for the Golds in Chloe Benjamin’s book—my only option was to read my way past a night when the dark outside the bedroom window felt stuck inside of me.…
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Fictional Characters Who Walk Into The Real World, a.k.a. Cosplay
Viola Roberts went to Seattle to promote two new audiobooks released in February: The Body in The Bathtub and The Venom in The Valentine. Well. Viola’s VOICE went (Psssst! That’s me). Her creator was there as well, author Shéa Macleod. This is us, having a blast after not seeing each other for over 2 years!…