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The Book Lover's Boudoir
http://thebookloversboudoir.wordpress.com/
A book review website that covers all genres including horror, literary and fantasy. E-books, paper backs and hard backs are reviewed. Books are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 3966 )
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The Heavy-Petting Zoo by Clare Pollard
In The Heavy-Petting Zoo, the male of the species is shown in all his preening glory, his growling and posturing exposed but also given marks out of ten. The... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Look Clare, Look! by @poetclare
Look, Clare! Look! is the story of a year. When Clare Pollard set off on a six-month world trip, she wanted to write a long poem which engaged with what she... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ovid’s Heroines by @poetclare
Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome sometime between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as "Heroines." It is a series of poems in... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Incarnation by @poetclare
The poems in Clare Pollard's new collection Incarnation are about our children and the stories that we tell them. Whether looking at the discourse around... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Ferryman by @jccronin
The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . . Citizens of the main island enjoy... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Wind Through the Keyhole by @StephenKing
For readers new to The Dark Tower, THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheWarmHandsofGhosts by @arden_katherine
January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenche... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Warcross by @Marie_lu
For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bount... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Changeling by @poetclare
Clare Pollard's fourth collection is steeped in folktale and ballads and looks at the stories we tell about ourselves. From the Pendle witch-trials in... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
XOXO by @axieoh
Jenny's never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-po... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Family of Liars by @elockhart
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible,... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Bedtime by @poetclare
Clare Pollard wrote her first book 'The Heavy-Petting Zoo' while still at school. Its sequel is 'Bedtime' a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets
With unabashed fervour the Poemfone poets are redefining poetry as we know it. Archaic literary rules that have never been bent have suddenly been broken., and... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by @garthnix
There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity who inhabits... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by @JoyceCarolOates
Oates's fifth volume of poems tells of the central concerns of everyday lives, the metamorphoses undergone in life and death, and the merging of the individual... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Dark Tower by @StephenKing
This magnificent novel is the final volume in Stephen King's epic masterpiece and the most anticipated book of his legendary career. It is the book millions of... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Time Traveller by @JoyceCarolOates
Here are 70 poems representing the depth and intensity of Oates' feelings, the intuitive understanding and heightened perception of life that have made her so... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Station Eleven by @emilymandel
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Beautiful Land by Alan Averill
Tak O'Leary is a Japanese American television host who vanished off the grid after a failed suicide attempt. Samira Moheb is an Iranian American military... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#MyThroatanOpenGrave by @toribov
In the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania, they fear the Lord of the Wood almost as much as they fear God. According to legend, ghosts of the nearby forest... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE