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Audiobooks and Orphans

December 8, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Miss Queenie – 4/5 Stars This is a brilliant follow-up to The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry that came out a few years earlier. Like very few, but very potent sequels, this one eclipses the original. While the original book is heart-warming and touching, something akin to the Straight Story meeting BBC2, this book is downright beautiful and devastating. Harold Fry was about a man who receives a simple and cryptic postcard from a former colleague from the time he worked for a local brewery. His […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Doris Betts, Dorothy Allison, joe hill, Junichiro Tanizaki, Rachel Joyce, Seven Japanese Tales, Strange Weather, the love song of miss queenie hennessy, the memoirs of sherlock holmes, trash

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:478 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Doris Betts, Dorothy Allison, joe hill, Junichiro Tanizaki, Rachel Joyce, Seven Japanese Tales, Strange Weather, the love song of miss queenie hennessy, the memoirs of sherlock holmes, trash ·
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