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The Book Lover's Boudoir
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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 ( 4039 )
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After the Quake by @harukimurakami_
The six stories in Haruki Murakami's mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of th... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Bloody Summer by Carmen Maria Machado
What do children know that adults can't begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in this haunting short story by the bestselling author of Her... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Righteous Man by @TochiTrueStory
A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about deliverance, friendship, and metamorphosis by the... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Flight of the Silvers by @SilversGuy
Without warning, the world comes to an end. The sky looms frigid white. The electric grid falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. Within moments,... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Sister’s Story by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
From the internationally acclaimed author of A Girl Returned, a spellbinding story about family, memory, love, and the relationships that define us. It's the... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Caiman by María Eugenia Manrique
When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby alligator, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Night, Neon by @JoyceCarolOates
From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery suspense stories. These are tales of... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Tilt by Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Stag by Karen Russell
Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and resilience in the Mojave Desert by the New York Times bestsellin... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Backbone of the World by @SGJ72
An American Indian woman's past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined short story of deep secrets and Lovecraftian horrors by a New Yor... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Wildlife by @jeffvandermeer
Nature offers sanctuary for a woman with a violent past. But anything can happen when borderlands are crossed in a short story about the menace next door by a... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Her Last Hope by Louise Guy
Abi's life has been turned upside down by her husband's death-in more ways than she could ever have imagined. With his dodgy business dealings now... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Book of Form and Emptiness by @ozekiland
When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it ... After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheJunction by @JunctionNovel
When a missing child, Lucas Jones, reappears on his Uncle's doorstep in his hometown of Medford after an absence of 12 years, the brief moment of joy is... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Burgess Boys by @LizStrout
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#YoungMungo by @Doug_D_Stuart
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart'... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Velocity by @deankoontz
On the windscreen of his SUV, Billy finds the first note. It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police, an elderly woman will be killed. If he... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Island of Missing Trees by @Elif_Safak
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Small Things Like These by @CKeeganFiction
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE