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Book Review: A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 18, 2019 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

In A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne and his main character, Maurice Swift, take us inside the world of a writer. And a sociopath. It’s so completely wrong that it’s right. This is the follow up to Boyne’s fabulous 2017 book, The Heart’s Invisible Furies....

Book Review: Pickle’s Progress by Marcia Butler

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 19, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Pickle’s Progress is a quintessential modern New York City novel. In it, Marcia Butler gives us identical twin brothers and the women in their lives. But it’s much more dysfunctional and convoluted than that. Fundamentally, that’s a good thing. Butler’s taut...

Book Review: Angel Time by Anne Rice

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 5, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

In Angel Time, Anne Rice tells the story of a present-day hit man, a former parochial school student. The narrator is his guardian angel. After learning about his depressing descent from down on his luck school boy to a life of crime, we meet said angel. And together...

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