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What if you weren’t sure if your old friend murdered his entire family?

The Dry by Jane Harper

September 28, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

My sister gave me this book to read after she read the entire thing on our Christmas vacation at the end of last year in like two days.  She loved it, and she wanted me to love it too.  Unfortunately my to be read pile was waaaay too high, and it takes me a while to read “actual” books, so it took me a while to get to this book.  Fortunately though, I read it in two days!  It was really good.  I liked the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: drought, Jane Harper, murder

kfishgirl's CBR11 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: drought, Jane Harper, murder ·
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Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

February 19, 2017 by borisanne 3 Comments

I’m taking on “The Dark Tower” series! It starts with The Gunslinger. It was reassuring to read King’s preface to the edition I picked up, in which he describes the creation of the story: he was very young, and he was very green, and it took him a very long time to finish the series. And then, as he finished, he went back and revised for clarity and consistency. I admire this, and appreciate it as a reader, and knowing that he was young and green […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: black, cbr9, desert, drought, evil, good, Gunslinger, King, knights, magic, sacrifice, squires, Stephen King, time travel, western, white

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: black, cbr9, desert, drought, evil, good, Gunslinger, King, knights, magic, sacrifice, squires, Stephen King, time travel, western, white ·
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