I'm not usually a big crime drama fan, but this one sucked me in right away with a unique and intriguing premise. Rachel Holloway works at a floundering newspaper with the bright idea to boost readership by starting a podcast focused on a true unsolved crime story: what happened to little Molly ...
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I wasn't planning on reading ahead in this series after "Off to Be the Wizard," probably because while the concept was super original and therefore highly entertaining, I already knew it. And while the characters are all hilariously tongue-in-cheek, I couldn't identify with any of them because they ...
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Review of The Selection I love revisiting old favorites, and this is such a creative (at the time) combination of the dystopian genre with the reality TV phenomenon, and even a little bit of the Cinderella story. A very brief synopsis: in a post-WWIV world where people are separated into castes ...
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I listened to the Audible version read by Claire Danes. It was accompanied by a very long foreword and note from the translator, which I actually enjoyed more than the story itself. These gave a lot of context in terms of how the Odyssey influenced culture in Ancient Greece, and how it continues to ...
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Review of Twilight: The experience of reading this series is such a strange contradiction. There are so many things I dislike about it... and yet, I want to keep reading. First: if we cut out the number of times we're told about Edward's glorious perfection, I think the book would be 25% ...
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