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In which Jill discovers why exactly a plot-driven Dickensian novel won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Final thoughts on Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
I finished The Luminaries last night. I feel so accomplished. I really enjoyed this book, every single page. Even the weird ones at the end that I just told Bethany the book would have been better without. The weirdness … Continue reading
In which Jill revisits a beloved genre and reviews a young adult novel: My review of Libba Bray’s The Diviners
This may be the first teen novel I’ve read since we started the blog. I admit I’ve avoided them lest our readers think my reading tastes are too pedestrian. But after a year and a half of doing this blogging … Continue reading
A Review of Guillermo Martinez’s The Oxford Murders (by Bethany)
I apologize in advance: this is going to be another one of those reviews where I say at the outset that I don’t like mysteries very much but that every so often I read them, and then I’m going to … Continue reading
A Review of Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game (by Bethany)
I somehow missed this book as a kid. It was written in 1978 and won the Newbery Medal, so one would think either that I would have read it or that I would remember a determined Custer’s-last-stand-style battle to defend … Continue reading
No, I haven’t forgotten that I’m a blogger. Jill reviews J. Robert Lennon’s Familiar
This was Powell’s Books Indiespensible selection number thirty-six, from late in 2012. I just read it in June, basically because certain nineteenth century heroines who go by the names of Isabel and Anna have taken up a lot of … Continue reading
In which Jill takes a break from high quality literature to read tripe: my review of Charlaine Harris’ Dead Ever After, the last Sookie Stackhouse novel
My book list for 2013 is much shorter than it has been in years past. But then I’ve also read some really long books this year. Really long, dense, wonderful books. I’ve missed those books you can get through in … Continue reading
A Review of Charlaine Harris’ Shakespeare’s Landlord (by Bethany)
Jill was very surprised that I read this book. She has read some of Charlaine Harris’ other books as part of her general vampire fascination and doesn’t think very highly of them. But there’s something that you have to understand: … Continue reading
More Gun-Toting Nordics: A Review of Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers (by Bethany)
I don’t read detective novels very often, but I do tend to enjoy them when I do. I didn’t enjoy this one as much as I wanted to or as much as I expected to. It’s premise is very ordinary … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 