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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 ( 4138 )
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Holly by @StephenKing
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner,... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#ThreeLittleBirds by @samblakebooks
Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery... When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Girls on the Shore by @AnnCleeves
It was winter. Cold and clear, a different sort of day for this coast where the westerly winds usually blew rain and cloud. Detective Inspector Matthew Venn is... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#ThePlasticPriest by @NicoleCushing
When the soul has been thoroughly poisoned, the body must abandon it. Everything feels unreal afterwards, but plastic heads shed no tears. Bram Stoker... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#BeneaththeZoo by @thecreativepenn
Some secrets should stay buried. When renowned architect Arania Webb returns to Bristol Zoo - once her childhood sanctuary but now a derelict ruin - she... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheLastCaretaker by @jessicastrawser
Katie's divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess offers a fresh start-a resident caretaking job at a nature preserve-Katie accepts. No matte... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Convenience Store Woman by @sayakamurata
Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Flood by @maggiegeewriter
The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands.... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Bridges Of Madison County by Robert James Waller
If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Late Gifts by Richard Price
Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this book's occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense o... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Rizzio by @damedenisemina
It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Murder of Halland by @piajuul
Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles.... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Illustrated Woman by @HelenMort
Let me kneel before the sky and let me be humble, untidy, let me be decorated. Here are women's bodies. Hungry adolescent bodies, fluctuating pregnant bodies,... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can't ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheOpenBook by @LMarieWood1
One decision. A woman hurrying through an airport picks up some stranger's fallen book instead of kicking it under a chair. And the feeding frenzy begins. The... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life,... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#WhenIFirstHeldYou by @Anstey_Harris
In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors' squat is raided and many,... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE
