Toddled Dredge

Patricia Wrede frequently combines her fantasy novels with elements of detective fiction. This handily serves to move the plot along, but sometimes feels like I am reading two incomplete stories instead of one fully-developed one. I have read four of her novels now, and I always come away not quite satisfied, but thinking, [...]

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Feel led to keep a diary. A sort of spiritual log for the benefit of others in the future. Each new divine insight and experience will shine like a beacon in the darkness!
Can’t think of anything to put in today.
Presented as a diary, Plass’s novel depicts an ordinary man in an evangelical church [...]

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Look! There in the distance - is it an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker? A Tasmanian tiger? Perhaps a Crumple-Horned Snorkack? No, a creature even rarer than these: an actor who can write.
Hugh Laurie’s The Gun Seller is a comic take on the popular spy novel. The usual action and intrigue vie for [...]

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Sarah Caudwell wrote four mystery novels before she died, and everyone who has read them wishes she had lived to write more. Her formal, almost Dickensian style is full of humor and wit. If you can get through the first ten pages, you will enjoy the rest of the book. Consider [...]

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I have put off writing this book review because I do not know how to go about it. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel Tarzan of the Apes is a classic adventure story that has been rehashed and reinterpeted many times. If you have not read the book, you may still think you know it. [...]

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