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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Possession, by AS Byatt
I had forgotten what a rich, immersive, layered, ornamented book A.S. Byatt’s Possession is. When I was reading it, it seemed… well, not small, but perhaps intimate. This is because so much of it takes place in the intimate confines … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, comedy, literary novel, Possession, romance, Victorian poetry
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The Road not Taken; Mina Laury by Charlotte Bronte
The Imaginary Country Mina Laury is one of Charlotte Bronte’s Tales of Angria. Angria is the imaginary land she and her siblings created and wrote about as children and young adults, into their twenties. These “tales” are not all highly … Continue reading
2012: The Books we Got for Christmas
Between actual books –brightly wrapped packages tied up with string (well, ribbon) – and gift card books, we did all right this year. Above is the pictorial representation of our haul. They include: Hide me Among the Graves, by Tim … Continue reading
The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest
My review of Priest’s latest in her Clockwork Century series is up at fanlit. I don’t have a firm date, but I expect to post an interview with her sometimes next week, or the week after.
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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
My review of this book, one of the Mistborn series, is posted at Fanlit.
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The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt
My review of this Byatt collection is up at Fanlit. The site posted my review of A.S. Byatt’s fairy tales and the novella that is the title piece, and another review written several years earlier by Kelly Lassiter. Kelly and … Continue reading
Cloud Atlas, the Book
“… and only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” “Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?” * “So who’s expired in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, genre fiction, Hawaii, literature
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Days of Blood and Starlight
My review of Laini Taylor’s sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone is posted at Fanlit.
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Unspoken, by Mari Jungsdedt
I picked up Unspoken, by Mari Jungstedt, at Mockingbird Used Books. This Swedish murder mystery is a later book in a series, something I didn’t realize when I chose it. The book was ably translated by Tiina Nunally. The story … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Gotland Island, Mari Jungsdedt, murder mystery, Unspoken
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The Reversal
I started reading Michael Connelly’s police procedurals when they first came out in the 1990s, with Concrete Blonde and Black Ice. Harry Bosch, Connelly’s Los Angeles detective, had a shard of darkness in his soul. The LA scene was gritty … Continue reading
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