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When Theatre Kids Get Involved In Their Own Shakespearean Tragedy

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

March 27, 2020 by Lisa Bee 1 Comment

So this novel was chosen on a whim, as it was sitting ready and waiting in the Audiobooks Available Now section of the library’s app. And upon reading the synopsis it felt like it had a similar energy to The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a book I definitely liked! If We Were Villains begins by introducing us to Oliver Marks, a man who is just being released from prison for an unspecified crime for which he served a 10-year sentence. The original detective from […]

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Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: M.L. Rio, ml rio ·
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Don’t break my rules, please.

June 12, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this book has a few problems that I will get to. Here’s what it does well: the scenes describing the experience of being on stage are good. The writing, in general, is quite good. The scenes describing the types of activities that happen at theater conservatory are good. These parts remind me a lot of My Dinner with Andre where Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory meet up and talk about among other things, experimental theater.  One of the things that is really neat is casting […]

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vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:235 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: if we were villains, ml rio ·
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