A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami - a review
I’ve raved about Haruki Murakami before, but I can’t help it. I’m a fan girl. “A Wild Sheep Chase” was the first of Murakami’s novels...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 16, 2018
- 3 min
Brief thoughts on "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami
After finishing Philip Pullman’s book about writing I returned to Haruki Murakami’s. Either I misremember picking up this book and...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min
Daemon Voices, by Philip Pullman - a review
I have a soft spot for books about the craft of writing, so when I saw “Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling” by Philip Pullman I knew I...
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carmillavoiez
- Jan 27, 2018
- 3 min
Thirteen Ways To Midnight, by Rue Volley - a review
I hadn’t planned to start reading this book until next month, but Schopenhauer pissed me off and it was a welcome distraction. 13 Ways to...
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carmillavoiez
- Jan 3, 2018
- 2 min
Witches Sluts Feminists, by Kristen J Sollee - a review
Witches Sluts Feminists is a slender volume. It positions itself as a primer on the connections between the three subjects in the title...
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carmillavoiez
- Dec 29, 2017
- 2 min
Ark of Souls, by Paul Grover - a review
My final book for 2017, a year in which I read and reviewed eighty books on Goodreads and a fair number here on my blog. So did the year...
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carmillavoiez
- Dec 26, 2017
- 2 min
The Willow Tree, by Bekki Pate - a review
It’s a fascinating book, although I suspect I know barely a fraction of what the story is about at the end of part one of the trilogy....
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carmillavoiez
- Dec 21, 2017
- 3 min
The Twenty Days of Turin, by Giorgio de Maria - a review
Originally published in the 1970s and recently translated into English, Giorgio de Maria’s short novel “The Twenty Days of Turin” is...
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carmillavoiez
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti - a review
“He showed them the way into the nightmare, but he could not show them the way out…” Thomas Ligotti. “More a singer than a writer,” was...
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carmillavoiez
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
Dance of the Butterfly, by Scott Carruba - a review
Dance of the Butterfly is set in an unnamed city in central Europe. It is a place where organised crime, represented by the cruel and...
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carmillavoiez
- Nov 18, 2017
- 2 min
Consider Her Ways and Others, by John Wyndham, a review
A friend of mine, a fellow author, on learning about the concept of my work in progress – Venus Virus, sent me this book – just in case....
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carmillavoiez
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Frostbite, by Claire Marta, a review
After my recent lament about poor editing in indie books, it was a delight to read Claire Marta’s book. Not only was the story...
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carmillavoiez
- Nov 8, 2017
- 2 min
The Grays Anatomy, by Rob Shepherd, a review, and a moan about poor editing
Indie authors have the enviable freedom to write something so unique that it would be considered unmarketable to mainstream publishers....
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carmillavoiez
- Nov 3, 2017
- 1 min
Madame Two Swords, by Tanith Lee, a review
Madame Two Swords is a beautifully written tale set in an alternate France, 200 years after their failed revolution. Things seemed to...
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carmillavoiez
- Nov 1, 2017
- 3 min
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a review
I have a soft spot for classic literature. Even so I felt nervous before tackling “Crime and Punishment”. Its reputation preceded it....
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carmillavoiez
- Oct 19, 2017
- 3 min
Hasty for the Dark, by Adam Nevill, a review
It was with great pleasure that I received a review copy of Adam Nevill’s latest release - “Hasty For the Dark”. The collection is...
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carmillavoiez
- Oct 14, 2017
- 1 min
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a review
Why did I know nothing about Biafra? In the late 1960s there were terrible acts of genocide against the Igbo people in Nigeria....
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carmillavoiez
- Oct 12, 2017
- 3 min
Adam Nevill, six days of October Frights, day three
That wonderful feeling when someone you’ve thought of as a contemporary and peer makes it to the big time. With the release on Friday...
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carmillavoiez
- Sep 16, 2017
- 5 min
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk - a review
Fight Club packs a lot into a very short read. It critiques class and masculinity in America. It looks at mental illness in the forms of...
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carmillavoiez
- Sep 15, 2017
- 1 min
The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters - a review
"The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin a journey." The Paying Guests is about a love triangle...
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