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“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short”

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

November 7, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Black (a book with a black cover) I had completely forgotten that I read and reviewed this book back in 2016. My original review can be found here. My plot summary of the more than 200-year-old novel can be found in my previous review. Nevertheless, my reading experience this time around was different enough from earlier times that I wanted to write about some of my thoughts and observations, not to mention some of the points of discussion that came up during my […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner

Malin's CBR17 Review No:66 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner ·
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Atmospheric, dark, and lovely

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

March 11, 2021 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

[Read as an ebook from the local library] Books like this generally don’t hit my radar. I do love well executed historical fiction, but as you might know from reading my review of The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, I’m not a Dickens person. Victorian England is not my particular wheelhouse. But I do like Korean film, and The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook’s sumptuous 2016 film, follows the initial plot of this book relatively closely, so I was curious to read the original. Because this is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: adapted into TV and film, crime fiction, historical fiction, lgbtq characters, LGBTQ romance, lgbtqia authors, Man Booker Prize shortlist, Sarah Waters

kimberleybear's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: adapted into TV and film, crime fiction, historical fiction, lgbtq characters, LGBTQ romance, lgbtqia authors, Man Booker Prize shortlist, Sarah Waters ·
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The Game’s Afoot (Bingo)

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

August 3, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars #CBR11 Book Club: Classics Spoiler Warning! There WILL be mild spoilers for the plot of this story (which is from 1887, so you know, if you wanted to know the details, you’ve had enough time to look them up or just read the damn story). This is also the Cannonball Book Club selection for August, so I’m going to assume that most people who are interested in participating will read the book before then. If, however, you have NOT read the book yet, maybe […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: 19th century, A study in scarlet, adapted into TV and film, cannonball book club reads classics, cbr11, cbr11bingo, classics, historical fiction, Malin, mystery, private detective, sir arthur conan doyle

Malin's CBR11 Review No:59 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 19th century, A study in scarlet, adapted into TV and film, cannonball book club reads classics, cbr11, cbr11bingo, classics, historical fiction, Malin, mystery, private detective, sir arthur conan doyle ·
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The book that ate November (The Count of Monte Cristo)

December 26, 2016 by Malin 1 Comment

4.5 stars Young sailor Edmond Dantés is well-meaning, kind and really rather naive, wanting nothing more than to make enough money to take care of his elderly father and marry his beloved Mercedes. There are other, less well-meaning people in his life who want what he has and are prepared to frame Dantés for treason to get these things. While celebrating his engagement to Mercedes, Dantés is arrested, charged with aiding in a plot to restore the exiled Napoleon to the throne. The anonymous scheming […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History Tagged With: adapted into TV and film, alexandre dumas, CBR Book Club, CBR8, historical fiction, Malin, Napoleonic wars, Norwegian, revenge, the count of monte cristo

Malin's CBR8 Review No:125 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History · Tags: adapted into TV and film, alexandre dumas, CBR Book Club, CBR8, historical fiction, Malin, Napoleonic wars, Norwegian, revenge, the count of monte cristo ·
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