A- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Reads1870s / classic books / engineer / England / historical romance / joint review / London / magnate / reading / urchin6 Comments
Janine: As a lot of people probably already know (because I couldn’t stop talking about it), I’m a huge fan of Devil’s Daughter, the previous book in Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels series. So I was thrilled to get an ARC of Chasing Cassandra, the sixth and final book in the series. ... more >
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Books in chains – Yeah, it’s book bondage – sorta. Actually this reminds me of a book I just read The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett which featured books that had been kept this way until a WWII bombing raid necessitated their removal. Here the librarian of ... more >
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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature makes all kinds of sense – So the first USian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in more than 20 years (Toni Morrison in 1993 was the last) is Bob Dylan rather than Philip Roth, as many had expected. How this will fuel the ... more >