August 2, 2010
From Goodreads: It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued [...]
July 1, 2010
This is the second part of William Morris’s classic fantasy novel, which was split in half arbitrarily for publishing reasons. It continues to follow the king’s son Ralph of Upmeads in his quest to drink from the Well at the World’s End and thus achieve near immortality. Look for a review of both volumes together [...]
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June 24, 2010
Despite the outward success of his visit to the USA, Sigmund Freud always spoke as if some trauma had befallen him there. He blamed the country for physical ailments that afflicted him long before his visit. Freud’s biographers have been bemused by his reaction, wondering whether some terrible unknown event might have happened in America [...]
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June 15, 2010
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder is the sweet, sexy, funny journey of Calla Lily’s life set in Wells’s expanding fictional Louisiana landscape. In the small river town of La Luna, Calla bursts into being, a force of nature as luminous as the flower she is named for. Under the loving light of the [...]
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May 18, 2010
“The Well at the World’s End was among the very first of its kind; it is an epic romance made of duplicity, machination, passion, wizardry, and is, in short, a vast odyssey into the weird. It is a beautifully rich fantasy, a vibrant fairytale without fairies.” 0 Like
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