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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Deal of a Lifetime in Books

Oct 5, 2020  
The Deal of a Lifetime
The Deal of a Lifetime
Fredrik Backman | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I would like to request that people not read the blurb summary of this book that I found on Amazon. It is far too long and detailed for such a concise work of prose. Even if Backman approved of how much of the story they’ve included there, I certainly do not. However, if you want to know my opinion of this beautifully constructed and thought-provoking novella, please read my review here – which will not give away hardly anything of the story, I promise!
https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2017/11/04/a-new-christmas-carol/
  
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Ari Augustine (10 KP) rated We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite in Books

May 4, 2020  
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Conyer Clayton | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The prose of WE SHED OUR SKIN LIKE DYNAMITE is beautiful, thoughtful, and a complicated mess of life.
I fully expected the usual confessional poetry and was pleasantly surprised by the depth of many poems, which touch on subjects such as abortion, sex, and substance abuse. I found the word play interesting and alluring, while occasionally surpassing boundaries I wasn't aware existed. Though it's not my *favorite* collection, it's certainly a cerebral and fluid one, offering up a depth of experience difficult to find in these shallow modern poetic waters.
  
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David McK (3372 KP) rated The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in Books

Nov 1, 2023  
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
6
7.3 (8 Ratings)
Book Rating
First things first: I downloaded this as a free e-book from (I think) Project Gutenberg, and have actually been reading this for a while on an on-and-off basis - able to do so as this is really a collection of short stories rather than a novel in its own right.

It's also not hard to see why Sherlock Holmes is such a popular character: the mysteries are all entertaining, while the prose is not so dense as to be off-putting to the more casual reader.