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Framley Parsonage

Righteous Ruin Author: Anthony Trollope Have you ever had the desire to know great people? To rise above your place in life? To be with the “in” crowd and reap all the benefits that come along with popularity and status? If so, then Framley Parsonage is the Victorian-era tale of caution for you. Mark Robarts is a lucky young cleric. He was installed as a young man by Lady Lufton, and he and his wife are already living well at the parsonage, with a yearly stipend beyond what a man of his age and experience could usually hope to expect. But [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-06T11:36:34-07:00July 6th, 2024|Tags: Anthony Trollope, Barsetshire, book review, Chronicles of Barsetshire, classic, read, reading|

Influence, The

Monsters in the Desert Author: Bentley Little Ross Lowry is down on his luck. For years, he was the support system for his family. Showing up when no one else would, bank rolling everyone’s ideas and disasters, rescuing everyone. Now that he needs rescue, however, he finds himself all alone, until his cousin opens her rural guest house in Magdalena, Arizona for him. Just until he finds a job. Just until he gets over the hump. But things are happening out in that desert town. Luck is changing. Rich people are finding themselves poor; poor people are becoming rich. Healthy people [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-05T10:05:47-07:00July 5th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Underhanded, The

A Cartoonish Thriller Author: Adam Sikes Professor William Dresden has never fit in, not with his family, and not with the academic world, which has just terminated his promising career over his recent research publication. He thinks he has nothing left to lose when he agrees to meet with a mysterious stranger at a Parisian café to talk about his failed studies. Instead, he discovers that his research has led MI6 to some critical findings about an international neo-fascist organization (the Strasbourg Executive). The complication? MI6 is compromised, the Executive has already deployed several assassins, and Professor Dresden’s family are deeply [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-02T08:48:18-07:00July 2nd, 2024|Tags: book revew, political, read, reading, thriller|