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Haunted Nights
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Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday,...
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Every Waking Hour
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The fourth book in Joanna Schaffhausen's heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series, Every Waking...
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Blossom and Me
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'As the years went by, and my grandchildren grew, I began to notice the many differences there are...
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Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood
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After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led...
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The Jane Austen Collection
Joanna Lumley, Jane Austen, Belinda Lang and Anna Massey
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Pride and Prejudice - An elegant tableau revolving around the five Bennett daughters, including...
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I Must Have You
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The year is 1999, and thirteen-year-old Elliot is a self-appointed "diet coach" who teaches her...
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Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit in Books
Jun 11, 2019
The book deals a LOT with religion and sexuality; Jo's father is a radio preacher, and she attends a baptist church in town with her stepmother and new grandparents. At one point - one of my favorite scenes in the book - she snaps, and calls out her classmates for thinking homosexuality is a sin, while they eat shellfish and have premarital sex.
I liked the book, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. I grew up Christian; I'm familiar with all the concepts in the book, but rather than progress to a kinder, more loving version of Christianity, I left it behind altogether. I'm glad that some people can reconcile religion with progressive values, but I can't. So it might be a good book for some, but not for me.You can find all my reviews and more at http://goddessinthestacks.com
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Deborah (162 KP) rated Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project, #2) in Books
Dec 21, 2018
Now, I've not read of of McDermid's works before, although I did think she was pretty smart when she won on Celebrity Mastermind. After reading this, I remain impressed. The novel tracks the original very closely and it's quite clever in how it does this. It is hard to imagine someone quite as naive as Catherine Morland in this day and age, but McDermind's 'Cat' Morland does pretty well. It's a very slangy novel ("amazeballs!"), sprinkled with 'txt spk', but then the original is quite slangy - especially the parts with Isabella Thorpe! I do think that to appreciate it you have to know the original quite well and have a passing knowledge of current popular culture. Catherine believing the General Tilney has murdered his wife or has locked her up somewhere is slightly fantastic, but rather more grounded than Cat's idea that the family may be Vampires.....! Still, if you can suspend your disbelief this is a fun and engaging read - in fact, a very 'nice' book... and with a very 'nice' hero. And I'm pretty sure this Henry Tilney would spell out all his texts properly - no want of grammar and total inattention to stops here!
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, 1957-1969: Volume 1
Samuel R. Delany and Kenneth R. James
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For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of...