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The Red Palace by June Hur
“I wanted to love and be loved. I wanted to be known. I wanted to be understood and accepted.” The Red Palace makes for a fairly suspenseful read, one that will definitely appeal to fans of YA mysteries where the lead girl goes all Nancy Drew trying to figure out who the culprit is. And…
18th century, 1st pov, 3 STARS, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, canadian korean author, class, court intrigue, doctors, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, June Hur, Korea, MURDER, murder investigation, murder mystery, My reviews, MYSTERY, palace, PRIVILEGE, published in 2022, read in 2022, reading, The Red Palace, YOUNG ADULT -
Crossings by Alex Landragin
Alex Landragin has written an ambitious tale, one that begins with the following line: “I didn’t write this book. I stole it.”This prologue, written by a bookbinder, tells us of how this manuscript has come to be in his hands. The manuscript in question comprises three seemingly separate books: ‘The Education of a Monster’ written…
18th century, 19TH CENTURY, 20th century, 3 STARS, Adult, adventure, Alex Landragin, books about books, books about writers, Charles Baudelaire, Crossings, FRANCE, French Armenian Australian author, HISTORICAL FICTION, interconnected stories, interesting structure, ISLAND, MAGICAL REALISM, male authors, MYSTERY, mystery puzzle, on a ship, plot over character, published in 2020, read in 2020, ROMANCE, sea, star-crossed lovers, story within a story, travel, voyage, Walter Benjamin, WWII -
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley — review
Although I did—for the most part—find Lucy Worsley’s prose to be compelling, I thought that many of her arguments were unconvincing and biased. Of course historians have their biases, but shouldn’t they at least try to distance themselves from their subject? The problem I have with this biography props up in the author’s introduction: “While…
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
“The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to…
18th century, 1st pov, 4.25 stars, ace, adventure, AMERICAN AUTHOR, aristocracy, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, drama, england, FANTASY, FANTASY OF MANNERS, female authors, FRANCE, grand tour, HISTORICAL FICTION, HUMOR, Italy, lgbtq+, m/m, MACKENZI LEE, queer, read in 2017, ROMANCE, spain, THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE, travel
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