It’s hard to think that there used to be a day when people would willingly go into surgery without anesthesia of any kind…without sterile procedures in place…and without a formally trained doctor. But that’s just a taste of what people faced in the 19th century, when Thomas Dent Mutter practiced medicine. And the marvels that form part of his legacy are more than tangible curiosities in a cabinet. Dr. Mutter was born into a loving family, but he lost both his parents at a young […]
I Didn’t Want This Book to End
I loved this book so very much. It was the warm, cozy blanket I needed in my life right now. I picked this up thanks to Jenny S’s review from a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not […]
“Hauntingly Intelligent” is a Bit Lofty Here
So, according to Amazon the full title is Valentina: A Hauntingly Intelligent Psychological Thriller. I really hope everything after the colon was added by the publisher as advertising and to help with search engine confusion and not actually what the author titled the book. If the author did add it… wow, someone’s got some pretty confident opinions of themselves. It’s not a bad book, I enjoyed it and read it in about three days. The plot clips along and there isn’t a lot of fat […]
Not So Much About the Daughter, but Still Good
It has taken me a while to figure out how I wanted to review this book. I actually read a whole other book while trying to figure out how I really felt about it. The main thing that my deliberations came down to was that it is a very good book… It just wasn’t really the book I was looking for when I started it. Based on the title and they synopsis blurb I was under the impression this was a story where the titular […]
Small Nonfiction/Small Fiction
84 Charing Cross Road- Helene Hanff 5/5 This is an incredibly charming book and was even a literary sensation that I didn’t really ever know about. More about that in the follow up. The set up is that Helene Hanff, a television screenwriter with a love of nonfiction, especially British diaries, writes letters to a British book shop asking for various books. As she gets her books, as she writes her thanks, and as the book shop returns her correspondence, a relationship develops especially […]
Zoey is strong, tough, and super stubborn
This is Book one of “The Dominion Trilogy”. All three books in the trilogy were available on Kindle Unlimited, so I downloaded all three and started at one! We open the story by meeting Zoey. She has no last name, and we find out quickly that she’s nearly 21. She lives in some sort of facility that is very strict. Throughout the story, we learn that she doesn’t know her parents, she doesn’t have any siblings, and she’s with other girls in the same boat. […]
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