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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Boring & Boring

August 16, 2014 by popcultureboy 3 Comments

I really enjoyed Setterfield’s debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale. It was a book as much about the love of books as it was the dark tale it was telling, and telling it with an unreliable narrator to boot. It left a lasting impression and when I spotted her follow up, a ghost story no less, on the shelf in Foyles, I had to buy it. I bloody love ghost stories. I love being scared when I’m reading or watching something, it’s the best. I haven’t had […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #CBR6, bellman & black, diane setterfield, Fiction, ghost story, historical fiction

popcultureboy's CBR6 Review No:38 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: #CBR6, bellman & black, diane setterfield, Fiction, ghost story, historical fiction ·
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Ghost story? Metaphors? Say what now?

February 16, 2014 by narfna 5 Comments

Oy. First thing: the third star of this rating is entirely for Jack Davenport, the narrator of the audiobook, whose voice is like sex. When he talks, my ovaries try to leap out of my body like that tiny alien in Alien. I try to explain to them this is counterproductive, but it continues to happen. Second, this book was incredibly frustrating and I hope writing this review will help me to sort out why. I read Setterfield’s debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, several years ago, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: bellman & black, diane setterfield, gothic, mystery, narfna, speculative, Victorian

narfna's CBR6 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: bellman & black, diane setterfield, gothic, mystery, narfna, speculative, Victorian ·
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