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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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Yadda yadda yadda, and there was peace throughout the land

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

May 5, 2019 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West has been on my radar since it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. When it showed up on the shortlist for this year’s International DUBLIN Literary Award, I figured it was time to see what all the fuss was about.  In an unnamed city in a long-simmering war with itself, Nadia and Saeed meet at a night class. At first cautious in their romance, they are thrown together when the fighting intensifies and Saeed’s mother is blown apart […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: allegorical fiction, cbr11, exit west, Fiction, incomplete, Man Booker Prize shortlist, mohsin hamid, very not good

Dusty Highway's CBR11 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: allegorical fiction, cbr11, exit west, Fiction, incomplete, Man Booker Prize shortlist, mohsin hamid, very not good ·
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