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Victorian Psycho

“I wonder if this blackness isn't in fact the real world, and the true blindfold is that other world of color we are accustomed to.” Author: Virginia Feito Winifred Notty is the new governess for Ensor House, where she will work with her charges Drusilla and Andrew. On the outside, she seems like the model governess, if a bit too young and pretty for Mrs. Pounds’ taste. On the inside, she is a sociopath with a taste for violence. Here and there, when the children are alone, she lets little clues sneak through, such as jokes about eating them. As her [...]

2025-08-10T16:45:51-07:00August 10th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Piglet

"To say something, to do something, to feel something, would be to self-destruct." Author: Lottie Hazell Piglet finally has it all. She’s clawed her way to the top. She’s an up-and-coming chef on the brink of a brilliant career and engaged to a handsome society man. Her lavish wedding, where she will make her pièce de résistance, her own cake, is just around the corner. She has posh friends now, a fancy life, and despite the childhood nickname that hides a bevy of trauma, she has finally made it. But then, two weeks before her wedding, her fiancé confesses something horrible. [...]

2025-08-04T10:57:43-07:00August 4th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Woman In the Polar Night, A

"You must live through the long night, the storms, and the destruction of human pride." Author: Christiane Ritter I was excited when my book club chose A Woman in the Polar Night. Over the last few years, I’ve found a deep connection with memoirs and autobiographies, and I’ve always had a love affair with the forbidding, forgotten places on this planet. After watching John Carpenter’s The Thing as a child (I know, I know), I fell in love with the beautiful, dangerous vistas and the isolation of Antarctica, so I was excited to learn more about Christiane Ritter’s unprecedented adventure to [...]

2025-08-03T11:02:38-07:00August 3rd, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , |
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