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Shocking News, Classic Author Wilkie Collins Wrote Another Good Book

The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins

August 29, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR15Bingo: Dwelling (the secret in the house is a major part of this book, and the house itself is a sort of character) I continue my tradition of one Wilkie Collins book a year with The Dead Secret, a fun and fast-paced read that cements Collins as probably my favorite Victorian writer (besides George Eliot for Middlemarch, but I’ve struggled to read Daniel Deronda about four times, whereas I’ve enjoyed every Collins I’ve read). I was especially impressed to note on the back cover that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: blindness, cbr15bingo, Disability, Gothic Horror, secrets, victorian lit, Wilkie Collins

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: blindness, cbr15bingo, Disability, Gothic Horror, secrets, victorian lit, Wilkie Collins ·
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A Delightful Gem of a Novel

Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

June 16, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Wilkie Collins is best known for The Moonstone and The Woman in White, but I highly recommend this enjoyable social issues novel. The action keeps moving and the morals come quick and fast. Collins knew how to write a fully realized character and how to keep the reader’s attention continuously engaged. Man and Wife involves a tangle of relationships and social questions of the day. The main issue Collins is dealing with here is unfair marriage laws and the horrible situations women would be left in due to their […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: family drama, Marriage, Romance, social issues, Wilkie Collins

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: family drama, Marriage, Romance, social issues, Wilkie Collins ·
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November Odds and Ends

The Hot Rock by Donald Westlake

The Dark Tower by CS Lewis

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk

The Feathers of Death by Simon Raven

The Drowned Cities by Paulo Bacigalupi

Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

November 15, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Hot Rock – 3/5 Stars A farcical kind of heist book. John Dortmunder is getting out of prision and his old pal immediately brings him a caper to work on. Together with three other specialists, the friends will be stealing an emerald from a museum that has cultural and sentimental value for two warring African nations. One of the nations currently possesses the emerald, while the other is hiring the thieves. Paid a salary, plus the promise of a large reward, Dortmunder begins to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: chuck palahniuk, CS Lewis, Donald Westlake, isaac asimov, Paulo Bacigalupi, robin wall kimmerer, Simon Raven, Wilkie Collins

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:459 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: chuck palahniuk, CS Lewis, Donald Westlake, isaac asimov, Paulo Bacigalupi, robin wall kimmerer, Simon Raven, Wilkie Collins ·
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Shining Bright

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

February 6, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Sometime during the 1860s, young Rachel Verinder turns eighteen and for her birthday, receives a large diamond named The Moonstone. It is priceless and the guests at her birthday party revel in its opulence before retiring for the night. As they wake up the next morning, the Moonstone has vanished. Did one of the guests take it? One of the staff members? Why does Rachel refuse to cooperate in the investigation? Why is housemaid Rosanna Spearman suddenly so secretive? And what do the three Indian […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: historical Victorian mystery, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: historical Victorian mystery, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins ·
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Delightful, Jane Austen-esque mystery

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

December 30, 2020 by Wanderlustful 2 Comments

The Moonstone is essentially a Jane Austen novel crossed with a detective novel- the first ever detective novel!  This was an unexpected delight. The plot is very 19th century Britain: several years prior, an English military officer returned from his posting in India with dubious ownership over a very large diamond that had recently graced a Hindu temple.  When the diamond appeared to be cursed, the officer gifted it to his estranged niece, Rachel, in an act that might be malevolent or generous, depending on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: detective, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: detective, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins ·
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“Of course I do,” returned Arthur, a little irritably. “You mean that it is a double-bedded room, and that one of the beds is occupied?”

The Dead Hand and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins

January 21, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a collection of shorter pieces by Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. I recently read his early novella A Rogue’s Life. These stories are for the most part from the same era as that novella. The lead story here is “The Dead Hand” and at first I thought it was going to be a kind of cheap thrill of a story. A man goes to a hotel off the main road and is offered a solid, if suspicious, […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: the dead hand and other stories, Wilkie Collins

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:38 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: the dead hand and other stories, Wilkie Collins ·
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