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The Secret Commonwealth Broods and Meanders and Dabbles in Casual White Supremacy

The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman

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**Spoilers for His Dark Materials trilogy and The Book of Dust trilogy below** A lot happens in this book, and nothing happens. Which was predictable. The second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy is also a filler, but at least then they get the stupid knife. A Secret Commonwealth feels like a million pages of setting up, introducing us to characters that will probably be important, moving them to where the next war is going to break, explaining their motivations. It’s basically a very […]

Clown disquiet

It by Stephen King

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I bought this monster of a book quite a while ago and finally decided to get my act together and read it on my two week holiday. I have read some of Stephen King’s books before and really enjoyed his writing style, especially Carrie. I would cautiously label his style ‘intellectual horror’. It did not disappoint. Clown disquiet aside, the idea that It could take on the shape of any of the children’s fears was fascinating. I loved the line drawn between adult and child […]

Keeping up with the Lindberghs

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

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Everyone knows two things about Charles Lindbergh: he piloted the first solo, non- stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris and in 1932 his son Charles Lindbergh Jr was kidnapped and murdered. This book is a fact-based, although fictional, recollection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh who tried to create her own life within the shadow of her famous husband. I learned a lot about Lucky Lindy, particularly how far reaching his influence was in the world of aviation, but Anne is the true star of […]

As usual, Amazon sucks me in with that free book

The Sweetest Kiss Series (A Kiss for Luck; A Single Kiss; The First Kiss; Kiss Me Hello) by Grace Burrowes

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This review contains spoilers for books in the Sweetest Kiss Series – Just FYI.   After my Grace Burrowes review, I wandered through her Amazon page a little bit, and happened to see a free novella, and downloaded it to my Kindle.  That book, A Kiss For Luck, was short, and sweet, and had unusual enough characters that I was interested in the following trilogy of books, and downloaded them once I finished it.  The characters in the novella are tangentially related to the main […]



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