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Short Classics Project: Book Review – The Misanthrope
Author: Molière Rating: 5/5 stars Book Blurb: Molière understood profoundly what makes us noble, pathetic, outrageous and funny, and in his splendid comedies satirized human folly to perfection. One of the best of his plays — and one of the greatest of all comedies — is The Misanthrope, first performed in 1666, when the King of…
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Book Review: Hyperion
Author: Dan Simmons Rating: 2/5 stars This was a re-read. I remember being amazed the first time I read this. The way the stories all wove together, the fear of the Shrike. I thought it was genius! All of which, for the most part, remains true. However, I had overlooked the gore and the religious…
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August 2022 TBR!
Here is my TBR for August! I was having a discussion with my husband and he asked me how many unread books I have. As I was carefully avoiding giving the answer, I thought about a way to work down my TBR. As a result, I am committed to reading the oldest books on my…
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Friday Reads!!! 7/29/22
Happy Friday! This is what I am currently reading. I am over half way through them and will review them when I am done. As you can see I switched up my TBR a little. Library holds came in! Biggest surprise so far? Recursion ! Oh my goodness – so good! I have enjoyed Blake…
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DNF – The Singles Game
I could not even with this book… I made it 60 percent of the way through and the main character just did something so vapid… and I was already trying so hard to like her. The selfishness, the narcissism, ugh. There are too many books waiting to be read for me to waste another paragraph.…
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JULY TBR 2022
Since I started this blog late -July there are only a few books I have left to read. These are the books left on my TBR for the month: I am about 100 pages into The Singles Game. I have already read 100 pages into Red Mars and really liked it, but that was so…
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Book Review: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Author: Katherine Center Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: She’s got his back.Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to…
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My goal is to read all the books…
Well as many as I can while taking care of my dog Addie, traveling with my hubby and just living life… My first review is coming soon… Stay tuned!