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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 ( 4047 )
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Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Frances is 21 years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, wh... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Knife Edge by @simonmayo
6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 29 minutes, seven people have been murdered. In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
In the Midst of Winter by @isabelallende
Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance. Richard Bowmaster... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
IT by @StephenKing
Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. It is a group of children who see - and feel - what... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Overhaul by @KathleenJamie
The Overhaul is Kathleen Jamie's first collection since the award-winning The Tree House, and it broadens her poetic range considerably. The Overhaul continue... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Hybrida by Tina Chang
"One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years." -Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida i... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Undressing by @LYLee
Celebrated poet Li-Young Lee returns with a breath taking new volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love. The Undressing is a tonic for... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Primers Volume Five
In 2019, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a fifth time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Jacqueline Saphra and Jan... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Dear Big Gods by @arshi_mona
Following on from her Forward prize-winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Taste of Ginger by @mansiwrites
In Mansi Shah's stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the city of her birth, where she grapples with her family's past... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
2021 On The Book Lover’s Boudoir
I read 533 books in 2021. 2021 factoids: How Much I Read / Listened 144,673 pages read Burned through 145 hours 206 minutes of audio Fiction or Nonfiction... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
December 2021 Round-Up on the Book Lover’s Boudoir
I read 32 books this month. December factoids: How Much I Read/Listened 6,585 pages read Burned through 27 hours 28 minutes of audio Fiction or Nonfiction... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Love The Way You Lie by @lisaunger
What's drawn four damaged people back to haunted land? The answer could destroy them all in a gripping short story about trapped memories and the lies we tell... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Circling The Drain by @lisaunger
Is it a hoax, or is it something unspeakably real? In this short story about evil games and spiralling secrets, whatever bargain you strike, there's a price to... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Fog Descending by @lisaunger
A grief-stricken spiritualist thought his faith in life after death was broken. Until the ghosts of his past come calling in this short story of believing in... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Such A Quiet Place by @MeganLMiranda
We had no warning that she would come back... Welcome to Hollow's Edge - a picture-perfect neighbourhood where everyone has each other's backs. At least,... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sixteen Horses by @gregbuchanan
Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Love Stories by @TrentDalton
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Three Little Girls by @janebadrock
THREE COLD CASES ONE DETERMINED COP Someone's playing tricks on Karen at home and at work. When two cold case files about missing girls turn up on her desk,... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE