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Don Quixote

“Until death it is all life” Author: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” Middle-aged Alonso Quixano is bored. He is tired of the average life, the average person, the lack of grand gestures and romantic sacrifices. He has spent his life reading one chivalric adventure after another, and while madness lies in fiction, so does glory and adventure. And so, he becomes a madman and sets out to be knighted Don Quixote de la Mancha, a brave knight-errant beset by sorceresses [...]

Frances Carden2026-08-02T17:23:41-07:00August 2nd, 2026|Tags: classic, Comedy, Don Quixote, fiction|

Whispers and Lies

Secrets and Lies and Loneliness Author: Joy Fielding Terry Painter is a quiet, unassuming person. She works by day as a nurse at a facility dedicated to caring for elderly, terminal patients. She lives in the house she inherited from her mother, covered in floral prints and filled with a collection of antique lady’s head vases. She works holidays and weekends. She is alone and lonely, a caring soul, forty-years old, still looking for a place in the world to call her own. She’s the perfect victim. The first time Terry rented out the separate guesthouse to a young woman named [...]

Frances Carden2026-07-27T20:01:31-07:00July 27th, 2026|Tags: book review, fiction, Joy Fielding, read, reading, thriller|

Hypnotist’s Love Story, The

"You weren't meant to admit, even to yourself, how badly you wanted love." Author: Liane Moriarty Ellen O’Farrell lives in the beautiful, glass-lined sea house she inherited from her grandparents. As a practicing hypnotherapist, she understands that location is everything. She has seen how the light playing across the wall, how the gentle sight and sound of the ocean helps her clients open to their own inner knowledge. There’s just one thing missing from this idyllic life: another person to share it with. She thinks she may have found that in Patrick. It’s early days yet, but something about their dates [...]

Frances Carden2026-07-26T16:24:49-07:00July 26th, 2026|Tags: book review, fiction, Liane Moriarty, read, reading, romance|