Tag: 2022 review
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world of wonders by robertson davies
📘World of Wonders by Robertson Davies📘 The appetite for marvels and monsters is insatiable. Magnus Eisengrim (Paul Dempster) tells his origin story in the last installment of the Deptford Trilogy. This book was so confusing for me – easily my most hated book of the trilogy. It was “narrated” by Ramsay, but mostly by Magnus…
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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Review Alex Easton is a retired soldier of 15 years who travels to his childhood friend’s home in response to her letter that she’s dying. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of the Usher, what Alex finds on the Usher property is much more…
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30 animals that made us smarter Review
🦈30 Animals That Made Us Smarter by Patrick Aryee 🐻❄️ 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter takes the reader on a journey through 30 stories of animals that have inspired scientists to invent awe-inspiring things that are helping or will help humans and nature. Patrick Aryee has a great, easy(ish) book here – he gives…
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rita hayworth and shawshank redemption
Wrongfully imprisoned convict Andy Dufresne seeks revenge in the now standalone novella, previously only published in King’s collection Different Seasons.🧱I was moderately disappointed from all of the movie hype and though I was intrigued by the story, I didn’t enjoy this novella as much as I thought I would. Read on. And stick to those…
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sea witch by sarah henning
Sea Witch by Sarah Henning – Short Review Evie, Anna, and Nik are the best of friends growing up. Until three becomes two after a tragic accident on the shores as the three best friends were playing. Years later, a girl appears on shore who resembles their friend, and Evie believes it’s her friend who…
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the last house on needless street
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward “Killing things is hard, sure, but keeping them safe and alive is much more difficult.” A family of three lives between a dead-end and the woods of Washington – a man who drinks, watches TV, and ignores the gaps in his memory, a teenage girl who…
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and then there were none by agatha christie
📘And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie📘 – Review Ten guests are invited to the privately owned island Indian Island, the new owner of which is a complete mystery and has been a question of societal talk. Ten guests arrive to Indian Island but ten guests do not leave because each has been marked…
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the invention of wings review
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd At the age of eleven, I owned a slave I couldn’t free. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Grimke Sarah Grimke is gifted Hetty “Handful” for her eleventh birthday, a child slave her family has owned in addition to the others they claim to…
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sex and vanity by kevin kwan
✨️Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan✨️ – Review While in Capri for a childhood friend’s wedding, Lucie Churchill meets George Zao and instantly hates him. Whether through the romance of the wedding or their chemistry or the heavily enticing environment of Capri, lucie and George grow closer in a short amount of time. Years after…
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Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer
📙Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer 📙 Max travels from Argentina to Poland in hopes of changing his life after his son dies and his wife’s depression becomes too much for him to handle. “Either the dead live, or the living are dead.” These notes that I took about halfway through sum up pretty much how…
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