Diane Setterfield set the bar pretty high for herself with her first novel, The Thirteenth Tale, which is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Now she’s back with Bellman & Black, a ghost story of sorts that isn’t as haunting to the reader as it is to the protagonist.
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Read more "Book Review: The Dinner by Herman Koch"Lauren: Between the genres of comic books and novels I’m most drawn to reading, it’s sometimes shocking to remember that not all books are a part of a series with hundreds and hundreds of pages building on the work that came before. It can become overwhelming, which is when it becomes pertinent to my psyche […]
Read more "Book Club in Session: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman"I thought I’d heard of everything when it came to nonhuman significant others. There are inflatable sex dolls, and one step up, Lars’ life-sized anatomically correct doll-turned-girlfriend in Lars and the Real Girl. And if you can’t buy a girlfriend, you can make one from scratch, much like the robo-wife in Robopocolypse. Yet, a girlfriend […]
Read more "Book Club in Session: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker"When I was younger I remember being too scared to watch The Shining with my sister and mom thanks to that terrifying cover image of Nicholson bludgeoning his way through the door.
Read more "Book Review: The Shining by Stephen King"Even though this is a little bit out of my comfort zone when it comes to genre (though not completely; there is mention of a ghost, after all), Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale is easily one of the best books I’ve read in a long time.
Read more "Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield"I think this book was supposed to be provocative, and I think the author tried her very best to be insightful… but it just wasn’t either of those things.
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