The Eves of Winter Stories
Book Review of "A Snow Garden & Other Stories" by Rachel Joyce In this collection, Rachel Joyce connects seven stories spanning from just before Christmas Eve through New Year's Eve. Joyce not only...
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Review of The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella by Fredrik Backman The protagonist of this novella is a father who is wealthy, successful and famous. He also has cancer, but so does the adorable...
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Book Review of "The Miniaturist" by Jessie Burton The blurb for this book reads as follows: "On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives at a grand house in Amsterdam to begin her...
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Book Review for “Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales” by Margaret Atwood According Harper’s Bazar’s the blurb on the back of this book, “Stone Mattress, a collection of nine, acerbic, mischievous,...
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Book Review for “Theo: A Novella” by Paul Torday. Summary: “John Elliott is the recently appointed vicar of St Joseph's - a dilapidated church with a congregation of sixteen and a leaky roof. Having...
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Book Review for “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr. Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living...
View ArticleTCL’s #DNF Friday #7 – Unlucky Number Seven.
Why I can't write a Book Review for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J. K. Rowling. Summary: "It's no longer safe for Harry at Hogwarts, so he and his best friends, Ron and Hermione, are on...
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Book Review for “The Writer's Cats” by Muriel Barbery, Translated by Alison Anderson, Illustrated by Maria Guitart. Summary: "Muriel Barbery, via her feline friends and co-conspirators, takes readers...
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Book Review for “Only May” by Carol Lovekin. Summary: "Listen. The bee walks across my finger, slow as anything and I can see through the gauzy wing, to the detail of my skin. 'You aren’t looking in...
View Article#ShortStory Monday – More Claire Keegan? Yes, Please!
Book Review for “Walk the Blue Fields” by Claire Keegan. Summary: "... an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the...
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Book Review for “The Memory of Lavender and Sage” by Aimie K. Runyan. Summary: "Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved...
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Book Review for “At the Stroke of Midnight” by Jenni Keer. Summary: " It’s 1923 and in a decade that promises excitement and liberation, Pearl Glenham and her father are invited to a mysterious country...
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