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DNF Review: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Title: House of Leaves Author: Mark Z. Danielewski Series: Standalone Rating: 1 Star 709 pages Published March 7th 2000 by Pantheon Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Stopped reading around page 320. This book is so meta that even meta isn’t meta enough for it. Sheesh. As someone who has been trained in literary […]

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Reading Classics: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

I read this book as part of the Classics Club Challenge – I challenged myself to read fifty classics picked by me in the next three years. To find out more, you can see my list or visit the Classics Club website. Title: To the Lighthouse Author: Virginia Woolf First Publication: 1927 Goodreads To the […]

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Literary Fiction Mini-Reviews #2

Title: The Stranger Author: Albert Camus First Publication: 1942 The Stranger is a short novel written by Nobel-prize winner essentialist-but-not-really Camus. There are a few things you should know about this book. One, it has plenty of philosophical meaning and such, but if you’re not interested in that, the plot isn’t very strong. Two, if […]

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DNF Review: The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan

Title: The Thin Executioner Author: Darren Shan Series: None Rating: 1/5 Stars 410 pages Published September 2010 by HarperCollins Children’s Books Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Terrible. Stopped at 187 pages. You know, I love Darren Shan’s books. I fell in love with his vampire Cirque du Freak books when I was younger, […]

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DNF Review: Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza

Title: Mila 2.0 Author: Debra Driza Series: Mila 2.0 #1 Rating: 1/5 Stars 480 pages – read 160 Published March 12th 2013 by Katherine Tegen Books ARC received from the publisher Goodreads | Author | Publisher | Amazon Kindle & Paperback| Book Depository I can’t take any more… This review is only based on the […]

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