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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Twisty, revengy, and a quick read

The Collective by Alison Gaylin

November 26, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Wow this book. I think I read it in three days, and that’s just reading at night before I went to bed. I know I stayed up until midnight a few nights because I couldn’t stop reading this. My best friend recommended it to me a while ago, and I just recently borrowed the ebook from the library. It’s a pretty satisfying premise. The main character Camille is still grieving her daughter five years after she died. A local college student was tried and acquitted […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Alison Gaylin, murder, revenge, the dark web

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Alison Gaylin, murder, revenge, the dark web ·
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It was nine thirty on Christmas Eve.

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase

Time and Tide by Frank Conroy

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow

Inside Stories by Ben H Winters

The Dark Web by Geoff White

Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgard

This Land is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich

Dr Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

Texts from Jane Eyre by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain

May 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Here’s a whole bunch of kind of (Sorry) short reviews for short books! Pandemic reading!!!     The Woman in Black – 3/5 Stars I still think it remains a little silly that this movie had Daniel Radcliffe in it. He was too fresh off of Harry Potter and hadn’t yet made his real transition into adult movies. I think his show “The Young Doctor’s Notebook” was a more successful vehicle for him as it placed him in a transitional role. Anyway, I mention all […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: a kind of loving, a small place, agatha christie, Barbara Ehrenreich, ben h. winters, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, dr doolittle, Frank Conroy, Geoff White, gimpel the fool, Hugh Lofting, inadvertent, inside stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jack London, Jamaica Kincaid, James Hadley Chase, John Leguizamo, karl ove knausgard, kwaidan, Lafcadio Hearn, latin history for morons, Mark Twain, nature poem, no orchids for miss blandish, poirot investigates, Stan Barstow, Susan Hill, Texts from Jane Eyre, the dark web, the scarlet plague, The Woman in Black, this land is their land, time and tide, Tommy Pico

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:279 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: a kind of loving, a small place, agatha christie, Barbara Ehrenreich, ben h. winters, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, dr doolittle, Frank Conroy, Geoff White, gimpel the fool, Hugh Lofting, inadvertent, inside stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jack London, Jamaica Kincaid, James Hadley Chase, John Leguizamo, karl ove knausgard, kwaidan, Lafcadio Hearn, latin history for morons, Mark Twain, nature poem, no orchids for miss blandish, poirot investigates, Stan Barstow, Susan Hill, Texts from Jane Eyre, the dark web, the scarlet plague, The Woman in Black, this land is their land, time and tide, Tommy Pico ·
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