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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 ( 4047 )
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The Blood Miracles by @SwearyLady
Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening ... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Whistle In The Dark by @ECHealey
Jen's fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by @chenchenwrites
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family - the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
From the author of The Book Thief comes this darkly funny and ultimately uplifting thriller which proves that anyone can be extraordinary. Ed Kennedy is... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by @amahnke
They live in shadows - deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our mind. They're spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#GirlWomanOther by @BernardineEvari
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you've never seen it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Lacuna by @b_kingsolver
Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. Making himself useful in the household... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Christmas: What The Fa-La-La-La-La?
Christmas is the world's biggest festival, yet we barely understand how we got here. Somewhere between Jesus, Dickens and Coke, Christmas became the beloved... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Stanley Park by @SapphiraOlson
A sorrow has taken root in my heart, and although it hurts every day I know there is a place where we laugh together under an open sky. To that sanctuary, I am... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Weddings by @alexanderchee
For Jack Cho, a fortysomething gay man, being able to marry someone he loves is so unfamiliar it's terrifying. Then a wedding invitation from a college friend... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
An Unkindness of Ghosts by @cyborgyndroid
Obsessive and withdrawn, Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the space vessel HSS Matilda. When the autopsy of the ship's sovereign reveals a link between his... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Zenith Man by Jennifer Haigh
Whatever had been going on inside the shuttered old house, the couple who lived there kept it to themselves. Among the locals, there's only chilling... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Vidyan Ravinthiran's second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. These are love poems that turn analytical, consider the world, and in which the pronou... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Lion’s Den by @anthonyfmarra
Exposing his father's transgressions in a tell-all was the ethical, righteous-and profitable-thing to do. What's left but to slink back home for a humbling... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Can You Feel This? by @jorringer
In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child's needs wit... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
@JohnSafran Vs The Occult
John Safran has fallen in with the wrong crowd, again. He has spent months among sorcerers, Satanists, and exorcists and he's spilling the beans in a new... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Everything My Mother Taught Me by @ahoffmanwriter
In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age,... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
2019 Round-Up on the Book Lover’s Boudoir
I read 663 books in 2019. 2019 factoids: 144,052 pages read Burned through 740 hours 2 minutes of audio 575 fiction titles 88 nonfiction titles 244... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
December Round-Up on the Book Lover’s Boudoir
I read 62 books in December. December factoids: 16,140 pages read Burned through 22 hours 19 minutes of audio 59 fiction titles 3 nonfiction... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE