Book 82: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
I decided with this novel that I would include re-reads in my reviews unless I have reviewed them in the […]
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Book 81: Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
There are few books that I finish reading and truly regret not having read them earlier in life, and this
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Book 74: Babycakes – Armistead Maupin
Babycakes takes place two years after Further Tales of the City and of the four books I’ve read in the series this is my least favorite. I understand characters have to grow and evolve, but sometimes you just don’t want them to.
In comparison to the other novels in this series, the novel seems angst ridden and is darker than the previous novels. I’m not sure if this is a direct response to Maupin’s mindset at the time or the general feeling of gloom and doom of San Francisco and the LGBT community at the time. Originally published in 1984, Maupin wrote the tales in Babycakes while Reagan was President of the US and Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK and the AIDS crisis was on the horizon (although the Reagan administration didn’t acknowledge it until 1987).
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Book 67: The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
I had no intentions of reading this novel, it’s not on any of my lists and it’s not like I
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Book 66: The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
I could be predictable and say the story is about the English patient, as the title suggests, or any of
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Book 59: Him, Her, Him Again, The End of Him – Patricia Marx
If I were to write a novel, I assume it would be something like this one, somewhat scatter-brained, somewhat genius
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Book 58: What Would Jane Austen Do? – Laurie Brown
What a fun novel! I was not expecting much as I purchased this in the Kindle sale a few weeks
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Book 56: Slammerkin – Emma Donoghue
What a stark contrast to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. I’m not sure if this is because a woman wrote
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Book 54: The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester
The complete title of this work is The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making
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