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In late 1950s Barcelona, Bea, the wife of Daniel Sempere, and his friend Fermín are …
Zafón puts a beautiful ribbon on a gloomy, mysterious, and riveting gift of a series.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was …
A slog. The idea I get, but ugh. I hated the writing style, the way it progressed. I just did not like much of this book at all. Which is probably why I recall nothing about it from high school when I first read it 3x years ago.
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a …
I have some real problems with this book. It ended okay, earned, perhaps, but to get there, some truly unearned and incoherent stuff has to happen. And jiminy can Lehane just once describe a thing and leave the similes alone? At least the simile should make sense.
The story, at the end, I enjoyed. But, the beats? The rhythm? Not so much.
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable …
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist …
A weird and funny little tale of love and food and how the two combine to make magic.
You would never know that we are only 100 years from having had nearly an entire state taken over (3, actually) by the Ku Klux Klan. Worse, the way DC Stephenson is portrayed in this book sounds like some crazy "billionaire" lunatic I had the misfortune of watching on television tonight. Alas... they all get theirs in the end, right?
Carnival Monster (EBook)
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after …
I got about 70% through this miserable, horribly written tale and skimmed the rest so I didn't take on any more bad habits from reading this poorly written example of... drek.
Carnival Monster (EBook)
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after …
I'm trying. I'm only a handful of pages in, but, boy oh you is it terrible in some significant ways so far. we'll see if I can come close to finishing it