Tag Archives: 5 stars (Would read again!)
Dear George R. R. Martin
Dear George R. R. (if that’s even your REAL name), I yield. I YIELD you bloody bastard! I can’t quit you. You took a while to hook me with A Game of Thrones. Probably because I knew everything that was … Continue reading
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Review: A Long-Forgotten Truth by Rachel Ballard
How can I review the book I’m publishing? It’s not an easy feat when you’re so close to something you’re so proud of, but I’ll give it a go. Rachel Ballard’s debut novel is the journey Gail Cavanaugh’s takes that … Continue reading
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Review: And Yet They Were Happy by Helen Phillips
Those who achieve even five minutes of such perfection–mediated or no–deserve our envy. The world is a humid and difficult place, and we are so often exhausted, and love is strange, and arrives in stops and starts. And Yet They Were … Continue reading
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Review: The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. … Continue reading
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Review: Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
She was young enough not to see a glass as half empty or half full, but as a beautiful object into which anything might be poured. She whispered a bargain, as though her whispering could make it true. Skylight Confessions … Continue reading
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Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
I’m seeing the movie today, so it seems appropriate to post my review of the book! What can I really say about this The Deathly Hallows except that I love it? I think it’s amazing? I wish I had never … Continue reading
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Review: The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer
“You live your life with the hope of becoming someone’s memory,” Herr Pick says with a snickering sullenness. “Then it turns out you will have to keep theirs.” The Marriage Artist – Andrew Winer The narrative of Andrew Winer’s The … Continue reading
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Review: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
There are, of course, desperate people out there, some of them refugees, some of them criminals; we do as well as we can with these impossible contradictions, these endless snarls of loveliness and murder. By Nightfall – Michael Cunningham Michael … Continue reading
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Review: Burning Silk by Destiny Kinal
There is an art to writing a novel; an arc of movement, a thread of thought, an inner fire stoked by imagination and all the writers come before. A writer can be a person who strings words together in an … Continue reading
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Review: Such a Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb
My name is Stevie Barrett. This is a story of why I was the way I was and how I am now me. Such a Pretty Face – Cathy Lamb Stevie Barrett once weighed over 300 pounds. She ate food to … Continue reading
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