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Title: The Little Sleep Author:Paul Tremblay Summary:Mark Genevich, a detective mostly in name only, receives a case he doesn’t understand from a person he can’t remember because he was sleeping at the...
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This is the movie-tie-in edition of the book, which is the version I have. Title: Julie & Julia: Author: Julie Powell Summary: Julie is a late-twenty-something New Yorker with a loving husband, a...
View Article84, Charing Cross Road– a love letter
Title: 84, Charing Cross Road Author: Helene Hanff Series: She wrote a follow-up book called “The Duchess of Boomsbury Street.” Pub: 1970 Randomly interesting thing: Helene Hanff wrote many scripts for...
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Plum Wodehouse at his typewriter All right, folks, it is time we had a serious chat about the stunning and wonderful brilliance that is P. G. Wodehouse. If you have never read his books (why...
View Articlea beginner’s guide to Douglas Adams
Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, Bill Cosby, Mel Brooks, Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who … You know that favorite thing you have– the one that you are zealously delighted to introduce to everyone around...
View Articlea sweet treat of a novel
hi, ya’ll! This was the last book I read during the summer, and the tiny bit of the review I wrote has been sitting here in the draft box and taunting me for weeks to finish it– so here it finally is!...
View Articlerepost: review of 84, Charing Cross Road
Title: 84, Charing Cross Road Author: Helene Hanff Series: She wrote a follow-up book called “The Duchess of Boomsbury Street.” Pub: 1970 Randomly interesting thing: Helene Hanff wrote many scripts for...
View Articlerepost: review of “The Shortest Way to Hades”
Title: The Shortest Way to Hades Author: Sarah Caudwell Series: the Hilary Tamar mysteries Summary: A group of young London barristers, along with their former tutor Tamar, set out to investigate the...
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Title: Birth Marks Author: Sarah Dunant Published: 1992 Series: The Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels Summary: Hannah, back in London, is hired to find a missing ballet dancer, Carolyn Hamilton. When Carolyn...
View Articlelong long overdue review: “Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical”
Title: Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical Author: Rob Shearman Pub: Big Finish, 2009 Genre: Short Stories/ Novellas Awards Won: Shirley Jackson Awards, Edge Hill Short Story Readers Prize, 2010...
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