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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in a Drug Induced Psychotic Haze Author: Lewis Carroll I’ve been wanting to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland since encountering the Cheshire Cat’s delightful conversation with a confused Alice a few years ago. The quote, which is on a delightful magnet in the entrance to my cube at work is: “‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here.’” Something about the esoteric insanity, the tongue-and-cheek sardonic nature of the leering cat and the little girl who keeps making increasingly bad decisions seemed charming. For [...]

Frances Carden2022-12-29T09:23:08-07:00December 27th, 2022|Tags: book review, fantasy, fiction, read, reading, reviews, science fiction|

Necroscope

Spies, Necromancers, and the Undead Author: Brian Lumley It’s Cold War days and the soviets have a secret program with a powerful weapon: a necromancer named Boris Dragosani. Part spy, part eater of the dead, Dragosani rips secrets from his enemies in the most painful and visceral of ways. Nothing is hidden from him. The problem? Dragosani has his own secrets, and his power is hardly natural. In his free time, he returns to an isolated part of the Balkan Mountains where he confers with one of the ancient undead, a creature he thinks that he can outsmart. Meanwhile in America, [...]

Frances Carden2022-12-25T10:37:24-07:00December 25th, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, vampire|

Little Fires Everywhere

Mothers' Lies Author: Celeste Ng Everyone lies. Sometimes, the lies burn everything down. In the quite suburb of Shaker Heights, a place of copycat houses, strict rules, and well off families looking for regulated lives, class warfare is about to explode. The Richardson’s are your typical, well-off suburban family. The mom is a semi-successful reporter who is comfortable, even if she is certainly not living the rebellious dreams of her youth. The dad is a doctor. The teenage kids are all normal – well, except boot wearing, convention defying, semi-crazy Izzy that is. But, every family has to have a black [...]

Frances Carden2022-12-24T13:59:32-07:00December 24th, 2022|Tags: bestseller, book review, class, fiction, motherhood, read, reading, social issues|