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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Book Review
Originally posted on The Book Review Directory:
? Title: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Author: Stieg Larsson Genre/Pages: Crime Fiction/672 Publisher: Vintage Publishing Date: November 22, 2011 Rating: 3.5 Spines Tammy’s One-Sentence synopsis: A journalist and a hacker combine their skills to solve a murder mystery that has been plaguing an old tycoon for over…
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Book Review
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? Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs RaeleighReads rating: 5 out of 5 coffee cups “Scattered toys, evidence of children long gone, lay skinned in dust. Creeping mold had turned window-adjacent walls black and furry. Fireplaces were throttled with vines that had descended from the…
High Profile – Book Review
Originally posted on The Book Review Directory:
? Title: High Profile: A Jesse Stone Novel Author: Robert B. Parker Format: Paperback edition, Berkley Books Published: 2008 It is no secret that I am a reader largely of mysteries, most notably PI series. For anyone who has followed what I do and review, it is also…
Stone and a Hard Place – Book Review
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? Stone and a Hard Place It’s hard enough for Alastair Stone to keep his two lives—powerful mage and mundane Occult Studies professor—separate without an old friend asking him to take on a new apprentice. Especially after a university colleague wants him to investigate a massive old house…
Five Fascinating Facts about Jane Austen
Interesting Literature A very short biography of Jane Austen told in five pieces of great trivia 1. Many writers have hated her. D. H. Lawrence called Jane Austen a ‘narrow gutted spinster’, while Mark Twain didn’t pull any punches: ‘Everytime I read “Pride and Prejudice” I want to dig her up and beat her over the […]
Interview with Author Charles E Yallowitz
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
My author interviews are drawing to a close, we have less than a month left of these posts and I’m not sure yet what I will do about replacing them. But, to this week, I am thrilled to have Charles E Yallowitz as my author interview. Charles is a huge…
100 Interesting Facts about Famous Authors
Interesting Literature 100 fun facts about writers and their fascinating lives On Twitter we recently reached the 100,000 followers milestone. (Hurrah! And do follow us @InterestingLit if you’re also a tweeter.) To celebrate the occasion, we’ve gathered together one hundred of our favourite facts about famous authors. We hope you enjoy them! Where there’s a link […]
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 