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May 16, 2023

REVIEW: Funny Guy by Emma Barry

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book ReviewsComedy / Contemporary / friends-to-lovers / NetGalley10 Comments

Dear Emma Barry, I loved Chick Magnet, released earlier this year and was excited to read Funny Guy, although I knew from your social media posts that it is a very different book. Different is fine – but unfortunately Funny Guy didn’t work quite as well for me as I’d ... more >

Jennie
March 9, 2022

Reading List by Jennie for October 2021 through December 2021

JennieBook ReviewsComedy / horror / Memoir / mystery / Reading lists / Suspense10 Comments

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins This was the first of my two short Halloween reads. Like most of my Halloween reads, it wasn’t particularly scary. The story opens with the Countess Narona visiting a doctor in London, and recounting a strange story about her meeting her fiance’s jilted lover. ... more >

September 22, 2016

REVIEW: Secondhand Souls: A Novel by Christopher Moore

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsComedy / death / macabre comedy / Paranormal / San-Francisco5 Comments

Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher ... more >

November 17, 2015

REVIEW: Lucia in London and Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews1930s / class differences / Comedy / English Historical / Historical / Small-Town / social networkComments Off on REVIEW: Lucia in London and Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson

E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. The third and fourth novels in the series, Lucia in London (1927) and Mapp and Lucia (1931) continue the ... more >

November 14, 2015

REVIEW: Bite Me by Christopher Moore

JayneB ReviewsComedy / Contemporary Series / Paranormal / San-Francisco / vampires7 Comments

“The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency back-up mistress of the great Bay Area night, and my mangahaired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public.” ... more >

November 11, 2015

REVIEW: Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson

JayneB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / Comedy / England / Historical / Small-Town / social networks6 Comments

Recommended Read

E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. Benson’s series revolves around two unforgettable characters, both forceful and irrepressible women who dominate their respective villages in southern ... more >

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