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Book Review: The Dream Hunter by Laura Kinsale

August 9, 2020 by Pamela Mullins

I love historical romance novels. If you come at me with any type of literary or cultural snobbery whatsoever (music, movie, TV, etc.), I will laugh you off as a pedestrian rube. And if you are a man and not reading historical romance novels, you are missing out on a trove of knowledge, sexual and otherwise. That and you are sexist—hashtag men are trash. I an’t kidding. Historical romance novels gave me a wealth of female cultural knowledge and education […]

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Book Review: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

July 25, 2020 by Matilda London

I am the product of an abusive alcoholic father and family. This book and The Shining speak to me on an entirely other level. One with the puking, the violence, the rage, melancholy and moodiness, the fugues, the cruel silence with the banal abusive micro-aggressions, and on and on ad nauseam. I equate the shining with the non-verbal language and cues us codependents decipher and interpret in order to keep the peace. Or not get lit by a switch, a […]

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Audio Book Review: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

July 24, 2020 by Pamela Mullins

Narrated by Joe Morton aka Papa Pope, this audio book is probably one of my favorites. Joe Morton’s intensity and glorious acting skills succeed in making this a fantastic, riveting listen. Morton’s read is made all that more excellent by Ellison’s words and story. Hypnotic doesn’t do it justice. Stark and poetic, revealing and utterly transformational are mild understatements. If you come away from this disappointed, I question your wisdom and challenge your imagination. As with any audio book I […]

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Book Review: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell

July 16, 2020 by Pamela Mullins

Most of the books I’ve reviewed so far I read months if not years ago. This one I recently finished. I did not realize that Orwell was such a superb essayist and journalist; perhaps even more so than his fiction. I would say a master; one of the best in his field. He writes with a clarity that’s rarely published nowadays. Authentic, forceful, and not the least bit misleading regarding his own preferences, he viscerally flays with crisp, sharp, detailed […]

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Book Review: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

July 15, 2020 by Pamela Mullins

David Mitchell is a god of words. A brilliant, utterly divine artist that pushes creative boundaries beyond akin to Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Mary Shelley and their more modern equivalents (to which I’ll go more into on future posts). When I first read Cloud Atlas, I waited for someone to jerk me from the blinding Utopian tunnel I suddenly found myself floundering, gasping in the radiance of such wit. It was all consuming. It pivoted my life into a […]

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Book Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt

July 8, 2020 by Pamela Mullins

This book was unputdownable. Intensely addictive. Thrilling. Philosophically and aesthetically deliberate—as is every Tartt novel. Privilege illustrated to an engrossing degree—glaringly elevating rich white entitlement and classism within the hallowed halls of even the most revered American educational institutions. How the perception and power of youth and events surrounding that experience evolve with time and hopefully, wisdom. How one story can indelicately frame your entire life—some of us more so than others; please keep this in mind while reading. I […]

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