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Rapture

The Dangers of Obsession Author: Thomas Tessier Jeff Lister is a successful man, at least in the world’s eyes. He lives in Hollywood, he’s rich, and he has built his own multi-million-dollar computer business from scratch (it’s the late 80s). But Jeff is a divorced workaholic, and his rare times at home leave him staring at his fancy fish tank, alone. That’s before he returns to his out-of-the-way hometown for a funeral and makes a connection with his high school crush. Jeff never asked Georgianne out, never took the risk of rejection. But he always wanted her. Even his current, underaged [...]

2024-08-11T14:20:32-07:00August 11th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Empire of Dirt, The

Lyrical, Literary, Loathsome, and Lifeless Author: Francesca Manfredi Valentia lives in the “blind house,” in rural Italy, growing up with her religious grandmother and her disenchanted, flighty mother. The house is said to be cursed; the women abnormal. The townsfolk stay away, and as her period approaches and she grows from childhood into womanhood, Valentia suspects that the walls weeping blood, the plagues of locust and frogs, and the men who cannot remain are all somehow tied to her. Has the curse come alive again through her emerging womanhood? The Empire of Dirt is ostensibly a coming-of-age novel, told through the [...]

2024-08-03T21:12:25-07:00August 3rd, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Forsyte Saga, The

Love Affairs, Betrayal, and Divorce Author: John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga is an introspective journey through three generations of a newly wealthy family as they find their way in the Victorian world, seeking happiness in everything from properties to torrid love affairs. The Forsytes were farmers and are decided members of the new “rich.” As such, they are obsessed by the trappings of wealth and proving themselves worthy through ownership and propriety. As the generations follow, one after another, they learn from those before them while also repeating many of the same errors, seeking to own where they should instead accept the [...]

2024-08-03T12:42:43-07:00August 3rd, 2024|Tags: , , , , |
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