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Free Thoughts on the Continental… oh, wait, on The Marriage Plot

July 15, 2016 by crystalclear 4 Comments

As a disclaimer, this is a review for a DNF.  I just can’t.  It isn’t the light fluffy thing I was hoping for, and… I just… no. (And yes, baxlala, I was inspired by your review titles!) Our story revolves around Madeline Hanna.  She is a senior English Major graduating from Brown. (Fancy!)  We also have the rest of our love triangle, Leonard Bankhead (a Biology/Philosophy major) and Mitchell Grammaticus (a Religious Studies major), also at Brown.  The boys are both a little strange, but Mitchell in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: DNF, Fiction, Pretentious

crystalclear's CBR8 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: DNF, Fiction, Pretentious ·
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One of these things is not like the other

April 27, 2016 by maydays 3 Comments

Well, this is awkward. I bought this book after a couple rave reviews here on CBR.  As with many of my CBR reads, it’s a bit outside my usual repetoire.  This is my first CBR DNF.  I’m not even sure if that’s CBR legal.  Can I review if I didn’t finish?  I’m going with the “ask for forgiveness, not permission” route. For a while I was attending an ARC book club at the local bookstore.  Each member registers and gets to borrow an Advanced Reader […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cozy mystery, DNF, egypt, maydays

maydays's CBR8 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cozy mystery, DNF, egypt, maydays ·
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