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Who’s That Girl? by Mhairi McFarlane

December 30, 2021 by wicherwill 1 Comment

Content warnings: suicide of parent (off screen, described in context of mental illness) Although it wasn’t a specific recommendation for this book, thank you to Sophia for the reminder rec for McFarlane! There are authors of the romance genre who people deem “must reads”–Jasmine Guillory and Courtney Milan come to mind immediately. There are also other authors that I have deemed “must reads” who I then get disappointed by–I thought T.J. Klune might be it but have had to shelve him. E.K. Johnston I’ll read, but so far she’s been a three star […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Mentions of suicide, Mhairi McFarlane

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:203 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Mentions of suicide, Mhairi McFarlane ·
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So are people just getting you down? What if they just. . . weren’t there?

Dissipatio H.G. : The Vanishing by Guido Morselli

March 31, 2021 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

A very odd little book.  Written in 1997, the Italian author committed suicide not long after the book was published, in part because none of his books had sold very well.  Hmmmm. The unnamed protagonist had been contemplating suicide, and found himself in a cavern in, possibly, the Swiss Alps.  He was ready to fling himself into a bottomless lake, but, eventually, reconsidered.  However, as he left the cavern, he slowly realized that Everything. Had. Changed. Since he had been living pretty much as a […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Guido Morselli, Italian, Mentions of suicide, Philisophical, Short but dense

elderberrywine's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Guido Morselli, Italian, Mentions of suicide, Philisophical, Short but dense ·
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