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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 ( 4055 )
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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 -
Sweetpea by @CJSkuse
I haven't killed anyone for three years and I thought that when it happened again I'd feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whisky. But no. Nothing. I... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Immortal Conquistador by Carrie Vaughn
Discover the deadly origins of the noble immortal Rick, ally to bestselling author Carrie Vaughn's fan-favourite werewolf, Kitty Norville. Ricardo de Avila woul... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheLostOnes by @Ajes74
England, 1917 Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella Marcham welcomes the opportunity to stay with her pregnant sister, Madeleine, at her imposing countr... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been by @chasetwichell
Selected from six award-winning books, this volume collects the best of Twichell's meditative and startling poems. A long-time student of Zen Buddhism,... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Runelight by @Joannechocolat
Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs - except, of course , for the... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothin... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Feed by @_MTAnderson
A tour de force in dystopian fiction set in a society where people connect to the internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Titus doesn't think much of... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Everything Under by @djdaisyjohnson
Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just thei... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Wisdom of Bones by Kitty Aldridge
'To find a creature part eel, part African lion, who steps the tightrope, plays the viola, frightens the ladies and sings like a nightingale. This is my task.... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Tryst by @moniqueroffey13
London, midsummer night. Jane and Bill meet the mysterious Lilah in a bar. She entrances the couple with half-true, mixed up tales about her life. At closing... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
WHERE IS SABRINA? The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral. A landmark graphic novel, alread... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Night Picnic by @CharlieSimic
The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE