At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft I’ve made it a habit over the past six years to try to read a “classic horror” novel around Halloween, starting with 2013’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and going up to last year’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Most ... more >
Read and reviewed: Game On, Ruth, Midsummer Moon The Lover’s Knot by Erin Satie This was reviewed by Jane back in 2014. I agree with her point about the nature of the heroine’s memory issue being fuzzy – it actually took me a while to understand that Sophie even had an ... more >
This is a short list because I decided to confine myself to A category books only. Usually I’ll include at least B+s, but looking at my log this past year I really do think these five represent the best of what I read in 2018. Bed of Flowers ... more >
Also read and reviewed: Ocean Light and Cadaver & Queen An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet Van Der Zijl I can’t remember if this was recommended somewhere or if I just found it while perusing historical biographies on Amazon, but I know I was initially intrigued by ... more >
Read and reviewed: The Sins of Lord Lockwood, A Treacherous Curse, Seize the Fire and Brooklynaire When We Were Ghouls by Amy E. Wallen I stumbled on this memoir…somewhere, and it sounded intriguing. The author spent part of her childhood in Nigeria and later in Peru, following her father’s ... more >
As I noted in Part 1, I split this into two posts because I wrote longer-than-usual mini-reviews. City of Thieves by David Benioff I picked this up from an Amazon deal somewhere, intrigued by the subject matter (the Siege of Leningrad has fascinated me since I read Paullina Simons’ ... more >