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I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street

Have a Hazardous Christmas Author: Ben Farthing Doug is a child who LOVES Christmas. His family enjoyed celebrating it, until the year when his little sister wandered away on Christmas Eve only to be found dead on Christmas. After that, his parents divorced themselves from the lights and celebration. No more Christmas Trees. No more presents. No more Rudolph specials. Where the holiday used to glow brightly, now there is only loss and dimness. Doug wants to bring back Christmas to his parents and remind them that they still have him. This will be the year. He’ll create a beautiful display [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-06T18:59:02-07:00July 6th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

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|

Girls, The

A Fictionalized Version of the Manson Cult Author: Emma Cline In The Girls author Emma Cline utilizes a fictionalized account to try and answer the long-time mystery: what made the Mason cult murder? How did Charles Manson, the pseudo-religious group leader, talk the others into such atrocities? How did normal girls become killers? In this story, we see a similar commune through the eyes of 14-year-old Evie, who has become charmed by the seeming freedom of the older girls and is running away from her rich, yet ultimately isolated life. Evie is most fascinated by the figure of Suzanne, and [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-05T17:28:04-07:00July 5th, 2024|Tags: book review, cult, mystery, reviews, thriller|