Chamrosh's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:02:55 -0700 60 Chamrosh's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Illustrated Man 24830 The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater

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路 Prologue: The Illustrated Man 路 ss *
路 The Veldt [鈥淭he World the Children Made鈥漖 路 ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 鈥50
路 Kaleidoscope 路 ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct 鈥49
路 The Other Foot 路 ss New Story Magazine Mar 鈥51
路 The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] 路 ss Copy Spr 鈥50
路 The Man 路 ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb 鈥49
路 The Long Rain [鈥淒eath-by-Rain鈥漖 路 ss Planet Stories Sum 鈥50
路 The Rocket Man 路 ss Maclean鈥檚 Mar 1 鈥51
路 The Fire Balloons [鈥溾業n This Sign...鈥欌漖 路 ss Imagination Apr 鈥51
路 The Last Night of the World 路 ss Esquire Feb 鈥51
路 The Exiles [鈥淭he Mad Wizards of Mars鈥漖 路 ss Maclean鈥檚 Sep 15 鈥49; F&SF Win 鈥50
路 No Particular Night or Morning 路 ss *
路 The Fox and the Forest [鈥淭o the Future鈥漖 路 ss Colliers May 13 鈥50
路 The Visitor 路 ss Startling Stories Nov 鈥48
路 The Concrete Mixer 路 ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr 鈥49
路 Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] 路 ss Startling Stories Mar 鈥49
路 The City [鈥淧urpose鈥漖 路 ss Startling Stories Jul 鈥50
路 Zero Hour 路 ss Planet Stories Fll 鈥47
路 The Rocket [鈥淥utcast of the Stars鈥漖 路 ss Super Science Stories Mar 鈥50
路 Epilogue 路 aw *]]> 186 Ray Bradbury 000712774X Chamrosh 0 tbr-too-long-read-asap 4.14 1951 The Illustrated Man
author: Ray Bradbury
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters]]> 16200
*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet]]> 208 Mark Dunn 0385722435 Chamrosh 0 3.93 2001 Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
author: Mark Dunn
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> The Water Urn 25919031 196 Houshang Moradi Kermani 9642667894 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.00 1989 The Water Urn
author: Houshang Moradi Kermani
name: Chamrosh
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]]> <![CDATA[Naked Lunch: The Restored Text]]> 7437 Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted a significant influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs鈥檚 notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.]]> 289 William S. Burroughs 0802140181 Chamrosh 0 surrealist 3.48 1959 Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
author: William S. Burroughs
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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Strangest preface I've ever read. Um anyway I think I will be moving my reviews to Storygraph, but I'm still lurking & stalking here.. watch out...
]]> To Strip the Flesh 59365978 A moving collection of six short stories that explores what must be stripped away to find the truth and celebrates the beauty of embracing who you are.

Chiaki Ogawa has never doubted that he is a boy, although the rest of the world has not been as kind. Bound by his mother鈥檚 dying wish, Chiaki tries to be a good daughter to his ailing father.

When the burden becomes too great, Chiaki sets out to remake himself in his own image and discovers more than just personal freedom with his transition鈥攈e finds understanding from the people who matter most.

听闭闭> 208 Oto Toda 1974722376 Chamrosh 0 to-read, comics 3.86 2019 To Strip the Flesh
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]]> Dai Dark T01 (French Edition) 61236763 0 Q. Hayashida 230212068X Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.65 2019 Dai Dark T01 (French Edition)
author: Q. Hayashida
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]]> The Discourses 99328 The Discourses (c. 1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics. In this carefully argued commentary on Livy's history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics.

Leslie J. Walker's translation, revised by Brian Richardson, is accompanied by an introduction by Bernard Crick, which illuminates Machiavelli's historical context and his new theories of politics. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading and notes.]]> 544 Niccol貌 Machiavelli 0140444289 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.07 1517 The Discourses
author: Niccol貌 Machiavelli
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]]> All the Sinners Bleed 61884832 A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

Then a year to the day after Titus鈥檚 election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus鈥檚 deputies. Those festering secrets are now out in the open and ready to tear the town apart.

As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer鈥檚 possible connections to a local church and the town鈥檚 harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town鈥檚 Confederate history.

Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as 鈥渙ne of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction鈥 (The Washington Post).]]> 338 S.A. Cosby 1250831911 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.18 2023 All the Sinners Bleed
author: S.A. Cosby
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)]]> 91477 Harry Dresden 鈥 Wizard

Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.

Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work 鈥 magical or mundane.

But just when it looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise.

A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take three guesses--and the first two don't count...]]> 424 Jim Butcher 0451458125 Chamrosh 3 Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. In some ways this was way weaker than Storm Front, but I liked it a lot better in others! It was a lot more openly grim, & the murder scenes were all so..cool. Cool!!
I love all these characters, they're so stupid & silly.. Harry and Marcone bickering ws crazy they have no sense or priorities. I LOVE TERA! It kind of amused me and pissed me off at the same time how Harry kept stopping in the middle of life or death battles to make note of stuff like 'Murphy had cute earlobes.' ??? why. Murphy pissed me off too! I've heard she gets way better and becomes one of the best characters as the books go on, but right now she's like.. doing police brutality whenever Harry breathes. It's got to be one hell of a redemption.]]> 3.98 2001 Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
author: Jim Butcher
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.
In some ways this was way weaker than Storm Front, but I liked it a lot better in others! It was a lot more openly grim, & the murder scenes were all so..cool. Cool!!
I love all these characters, they're so stupid & silly.. Harry and Marcone bickering ws crazy they have no sense or priorities. I LOVE TERA! It kind of amused me and pissed me off at the same time how Harry kept stopping in the middle of life or death battles to make note of stuff like 'Murphy had cute earlobes.' ??? why. Murphy pissed me off too! I've heard she gets way better and becomes one of the best characters as the books go on, but right now she's like.. doing police brutality whenever Harry breathes. It's got to be one hell of a redemption.
]]> <![CDATA[Figure Drawing for All It's Worth]]> 147941 204 Andrew Loomis 067031255X Chamrosh 0 currently-reading 4.02 1943 Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder]]> 61714633 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.]]> 331 David Grann 0385534264 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.14 2023 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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]]> <![CDATA[Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism]]> 55338982
What makes 鈥渃ults鈥 so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we鈥檙e looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join鈥攁nd more importantly, stay in鈥攅xtreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell鈥檚 argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .

Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of 鈥渂rainwashing.鈥 But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear鈥攁nd are influenced by鈥攅very single day.

Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities 鈥渃ultish,鈥 revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven鈥檚 Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of 鈥渃ultish鈥 everywhere.]]> 309 Amanda Montell 0062993151 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.82 2021 Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72]]> 7748 Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the national party as it splits between the different candidates.

With drug-addled alacrity and incisive wit, Thompson turned his jaundiced eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for president, deconstructed the campaigns, and ended up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic

]]> 481 Hunter S. Thompson 0446698229 Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.13 1973 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1973
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]]> The Complete Cosmicomics 6018080
In Italo Calvino鈥檚 cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth鈥檚 first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientific concepts to our common sensory, emotional, human world.

Now, The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of the cosmicomic stories for the first time. Containing works previously published in Cosmicomics, t zero, and Numbers in the Dark, this single volume also includes seven previously uncollected stories, four of which have never been published in translation in the United States.听This 鈥渃omplete and definitive collection鈥 (Evening Standard) reconfirms the cosmicomics as a crowning literary achievement and makes them available to new generations of readers.]]> 402 Italo Calvino 1846141656 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.17 1997 The Complete Cosmicomics
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> Cat鈥檚 Cradle 135479 Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...]]> 306 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.17 1963 Cat鈥檚 Cradle
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]> 18545 126 Tom Stoppard 0802132758 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.05 1967 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas]]> 92625 Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

The story 'Omelas" was first published in 'New Dimensions 3' (1973), a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.

The work was subsequently printed in Le Guin's short story collection 'The Wind's Twelve Quarters' (1975).

Ursula K Le Guin (1929鈥2018) was an American writer who published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry & four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and more. She was known for her treatment of gender ('The Left Hand of Darkness' (1969), 'The Matter of Seggri' (1994)), political systems ('The Telling' (2000), 'The Dispossessed' (1974)) and difference/otherness in any other form.]]> 32 Ursula K. Le Guin 0886825016 Chamrosh 0 4.38 1973 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)]]> 228665
Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond鈥檚 Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of half-men, half beasts invade the village seeking their master鈥檚 enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al鈥橳hor and his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.]]> 800 Robert Jordan 0812511816 Chamrosh 3 The voices seemed to whisper in Rand鈥檚 ears, right at the brink of understanding, and within it. Flesh so fine, so fine to tear, to gash the skin; skin to strip, to plait, so nice to plait the strips, so nice, so red the drops that fall . . . I FINISHED! THANK THE LIGHT! The setup is sooo long and in the beginning it wears on you, the endless descriptions of various taverns and farms that don't even last a full scene, and the way the book lingers on the thoughts of the characters for such an extreme amount of time. But halfway through, after the action picked up and all, I found myself really enjoying the details that I'd hated before. It really paints a vivid picture and you feel like you're right there with the characters, whose thoughts and actions become a lot more engaging once you've come to know them. I didn't fall in love with the world or story through this, but I'm so so intrigued to read more, especially for where it left off. Blessed because I was gifted the second book for Christmas!!.. Although I might not get to it for a while.]]> 4.19 1990 The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
author: Robert Jordan
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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The voices seemed to whisper in Rand鈥檚 ears, right at the brink of understanding, and within it. Flesh so fine, so fine to tear, to gash the skin; skin to strip, to plait, so nice to plait the strips, so nice, so red the drops that fall . . .
I FINISHED! THANK THE LIGHT! The setup is sooo long and in the beginning it wears on you, the endless descriptions of various taverns and farms that don't even last a full scene, and the way the book lingers on the thoughts of the characters for such an extreme amount of time. But halfway through, after the action picked up and all, I found myself really enjoying the details that I'd hated before. It really paints a vivid picture and you feel like you're right there with the characters, whose thoughts and actions become a lot more engaging once you've come to know them. I didn't fall in love with the world or story through this, but I'm so so intrigued to read more, especially for where it left off. Blessed because I was gifted the second book for Christmas!!.. Although I might not get to it for a while.
]]> <![CDATA[Dead Man's Hand (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #1)]]> 60097440
On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is鈥ot one of those witches.
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After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as 鈥渘ot Department material,鈥 Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can鈥檛 help hoping he鈥檒l somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors鈥 number one suspect.
听
Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive .]]> 373 James J. Butcher 0593440412 Chamrosh 0 3.80 2022 Dead Man's Hand (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #1)
author: James J. Butcher
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> <![CDATA[The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August]]> 35066358 417 Claire North Chamrosh 0 4.03 2014 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
author: Claire North
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> The Portable Dorothy Parker 46231 610 Dorothy Parker 0140150749 Chamrosh 0 to-read, poetry 4.34 1944 The Portable Dorothy Parker
author: Dorothy Parker
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1944
rating: 0
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]]> The Man Without Qualities 527756 1774 Robert Musil 0330349422 Chamrosh 0 to-read, unusual 4.20 1930 The Man Without Qualities
author: Robert Musil
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1930
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]]> <![CDATA[Meditations on First Philosophy]]> 30658 59 Ren茅 Descartes 0872201929 Chamrosh 0 to-read, philosophy 3.76 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy
author: Ren茅 Descartes
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1641
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]]> Confessions 27037 Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.]]> 341 Augustine of Hippo 0192833723 Chamrosh 0 to-read, philosophy 3.95 400 Confessions
author: Augustine of Hippo
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.95
book published: 400
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]]> The Problems of Philosophy 31799 116 Bertrand Russell 1421903679 Chamrosh 0 to-read, philosophy 3.91 1912 The Problems of Philosophy
author: Bertrand Russell
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1912
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]]> <![CDATA[Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)]]> 256008 Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.

Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.]]> 960 Larry McMurtry 067168390X Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.54 1985 Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
author: Larry McMurtry
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.54
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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]]> When the Sick Rule the World 25398673 When the Sick Rule the World collects Dodie Bellamy's new and recent lyric prose. Taking on topics as eclectic as vomit, Kathy Acker's wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, Bellamy here examines illness, health, and the body -- both the social body and the individual body -- in essays that glitter with wit even at their darkest moments.

In a safe house in Marin County, strangers allergic to the poisons of the world gather for an evening's solace. In Oakland, protesters dance an ecstatic bacchanal over the cancerous body of the city-state they love and hate. In the elegiac memoir, "Phone Home," Bellamy meditates on her dying mother's last days via the improbable cipher of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Finally, Bellamy offers a piercing critique of the displacement and blight that have accompanied Twitter's move into her warehouse-district neighborhood, and the pitiless imperialism of tech consciousness.

A participant in the New Narrative movement and a powerful influence on younger writers, Bellamy views heteronormativity and capitalism as plagues, and celebrates the micro-revolts of those on the outskirts. In its deft blending of forms, When the Sick Rule the World resiliently and defiantly proclaims the "undeath of the author." In the realm of sickness, Bellamy asserts, subjectivity is not stable. "When the sick rule the world, mortality will be sexy," Bellamy prophesies. Those defined by society as sick may, in fact, be its saviors.]]> 248 Dodie Bellamy 1584351683 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.17 2015 When the Sick Rule the World
author: Dodie Bellamy
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Don Quijote 7040695 0 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3794161432 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.33 2006 Don Quijote
author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> Cause of Death: ??? 54245875 321 K.N. Salustro Chamrosh 2 Hello, War . . . I see you're going through a medieval European phase again. I picked this up at a convention a few years ago, but didn't get around to it until now. Loved the concepts a lot, but the majority of the characters fell short, & the story seemed like it needed some editing. The prose also wasn't really what I look for. Will say that I loved the four horsemen, especially War <3. & once Death actually figured things out, it was much more engaging.]]> 3.29 Cause of Death: ???
author: K.N. Salustro
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.29
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Hello, War . . . I see you're going through a medieval European phase again.
I picked this up at a convention a few years ago, but didn't get around to it until now. Loved the concepts a lot, but the majority of the characters fell short, & the story seemed like it needed some editing. The prose also wasn't really what I look for. Will say that I loved the four horsemen, especially War <3. & once Death actually figured things out, it was much more engaging.
]]> <![CDATA[Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)]]> 8970727
Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. Acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London.

This brand-new edition of the bestselling novel contains unique bonus material, including a new afterword from Kim Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings to the original novel.]]> 547 Kim Newman Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.73 1992 Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
author: Kim Newman
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> Sabbath's Theater 956408 451 Philip Roth 0395739829 Chamrosh 0 3.75 1995 Sabbath's Theater
author: Philip Roth
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie (Ex:Centrics)]]> 57476213 These works tackle the biggest of identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.]]> 264 Leah Kardos 1501365371 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.56 Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie (Ex:Centrics)
author: Leah Kardos
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.56
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]]> <![CDATA[And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks]]> 3297175
The next day, his clothes stained with blood, Carr went to his friends Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac for help. Doing so, he involved them in the crime. A few months later, they were caught up in the crime in a different way.

Something about the murder captivated the Beats, especially Kerouac and Burroughs, who decided to collaborate on a novel about the events of the previous summer. At the time, the two authors were still unknown, yet to write anything of note. Narrating alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and violence, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives.

They submitted their manuscript鈥攃alled And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks after an absurd line from a radio bulletin about a circus fire鈥攖o publishers, but it was rejected and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Finally published, at long last, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks tells the story of Ramsay Allen and the object of his fixation, the charismatic, idealistic young Phillip Tourian. Phillip and his friends drink and dream in the bars and apartments of the West Village, until, with his friend Mike Ryko (Kerouac's narrator), he hatches a plan to ship out as a merchant marine. They'll catch a boat for France and jump ship, then make their way through the front to Paris.

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an engaging, fast-paced read that shows the two authors' developing styles. It is also an incomparable artifact, a legendary novel from the dawn of the Beat movement by two hugely influential writers.]]> 214 William S. Burroughs 0802118763 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.74 1945 And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
author: William S. Burroughs
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1945
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)]]> 27003
Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .

Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.]]> 374 Jasper Fforde 0142001805 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.89 2001 The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Mortal Follies (The Mortal Follies, #1)]]> 62984592
It is the year 1814 and life for a young lady of good breeding has many difficulties. There are balls to attend, fashions to follow, marriages to consider and, of course, the tiny complication of existing in a world swarming with fairy spirits, interfering deities, and actual straight-up sorcerers.

Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry into high society hindered by an irritating curse. It begins innocuously enough with her dress slowly unmaking itself over the course of an evening at a high-profile ball, a scandal she narrowly manages to escape.

However, as the curse progresses to more fatal proportions, Miss Mitchelmore must seek out aid, even if it means mixing with undesirable company. And there are few less desirable than Lady Georgianna Landrake鈥攁 brooding, alluring young woman sardonically nicknamed 鈥渢he Duke of Annadale鈥濃攚ho may or may not have murdered her own father and brothers to inherit their fortune. If one is to believe the gossip, she might be some kind of malign enchantress. Then again, a malign enchantress might be exactly what Miss Mitchelmore needs.

With the Duke鈥檚 help, Miss Mitchelmore delves into a world of angry gods and vindictive magic, keen to unmask the perpetrator of these otherworldly attacks. But Miss Mitchelmore鈥檚 reputation is not the only thing at risk in spending time with her new ally. For the rumoured witch has her own secrets that may prove dangerous to Miss Mitchelmore鈥檚 heart鈥攏ot to mention her life.]]> 416 Alexis Hall 0593497562 Chamrosh 2 lesbian, read-with-gf "I offer you helplessness," she said. "I offer you insignificance in the face of a world that thinks nothing of you. I offer you the cold, sick fear of not knowing."
And the goddess took it and was gone. and then I transformed into a fish or a gnat and then some mist and I observed it all and then I flew up into the sky and observed from there and I observed and made sure the audience knew deep in their hearts that I was also observing for 400 pages!
If you couldn't tell, I didn't appreciate the narrator. At the beginning I thought it was fun, but it soon became grating to read descriptions of the narrator purposefully accomplishing pure nothing over and over, & was it really necessary for EVERY scene to have a moment where the narrator went and described exactly how and where they watched the events transpire? & the humor in general I came to find annoying!! Didn't end up enjoying many of the characters, especially hated the Duke and Miss Bickle. Mitchelmore and Caesar were the only two I ended up really enjoying spending time around. I was blessed that Mitchelmore was the main character, but almost everyone around her.. uhg.h.]]> 3.39 2023 Mortal Follies (The Mortal Follies, #1)
author: Alexis Hall
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2023
rating: 2
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"I offer you helplessness," she said. "I offer you insignificance in the face of a world that thinks nothing of you. I offer you the cold, sick fear of not knowing."
And the goddess took it and was gone.
and then I transformed into a fish or a gnat and then some mist and I observed it all and then I flew up into the sky and observed from there and I observed and made sure the audience knew deep in their hearts that I was also observing for 400 pages!
If you couldn't tell, I didn't appreciate the narrator. At the beginning I thought it was fun, but it soon became grating to read descriptions of the narrator purposefully accomplishing pure nothing over and over, & was it really necessary for EVERY scene to have a moment where the narrator went and described exactly how and where they watched the events transpire? & the humor in general I came to find annoying!! Didn't end up enjoying many of the characters, especially hated the Duke and Miss Bickle. Mitchelmore and Caesar were the only two I ended up really enjoying spending time around. I was blessed that Mitchelmore was the main character, but almost everyone around her.. uhg.h.
]]> <![CDATA[Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)]]> 9317452 392 Ben Aaronovitch 0575097566 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.83 2011 Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> Bacchai 1628070
This version was specially commissioned by the National Theatre for a production in May 2002, directed by Sir Peter Hall and scored by Sir Harrison Birtwhistle.]]> 72 Euripides 1840022612 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.06 -405 Bacchai
author: Euripides
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.06
book published: -405
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch]]> 19389878
Featuring Thomas Ligotti, John Skipp, David J (of Bauhaus), Ben Loory, Nick Mamatas, Amelia Gray, Kevin Sampsell, Blake Butler, and many others, "In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch" is a tribute to one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.]]> 356 Thomas Ligotti Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.53 2013 In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch
author: Thomas Ligotti
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies]]> 17839778
Table of Contents
Introduction: Reading Langan, by Jeffrey Ford
Kids
How the Day Runs Down
Technicolor
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky
City of the Dog
The Shallows
The Revel
June, 1987. Hitchhiking. Mr. Norris.
Mother of Stone
Story Notes
Afterword: Note Found in a Glenfiddich Bottle, by Laird Barron
Acknowledgments]]> 322 John Langan 1614980543 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.05 2013 The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
author: John Langan
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.05
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]]> The Phantom Tollbooth 378 Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.

This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond.

For Milo, everything鈥檚 a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he鈥檚 got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it鈥檚 exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .]]> 248 Norton Juster 0394820371 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.19 1961 The Phantom Tollbooth
author: Norton Juster
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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]]> Nine Goblins 18735220
Nine Goblins is a novella of low...very low...fantasy.]]> 147 T. Kingfisher 1310505764 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.18 2013 Nine Goblins
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #1 (of 4)]]> 26219958 23 Grant Morrison Chamrosh 0 to-read, comics 3.87 2005 Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #1 (of 4)
author: Grant Morrison
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> 84, Charing Cross Road 368916
[text from the back cover of the book]]]> 106 Helene Hanff Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.17 1970 84, Charing Cross Road
author: Helene Hanff
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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]]> The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 15868343 487 S.C.M. Paine 1107020697 Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.37 2012 The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949
author: S.C.M. Paine
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2012
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]]> Anabasis 18885200 213 Xenophon Chamrosh 0 4.00 -400 Anabasis
author: Xenophon
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.00
book published: -400
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]]> <![CDATA[Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl]]> 35838277 354 Andrea Lawlor 0986086991 Chamrosh 0 to-read, otherwise-queer 3.88 2017 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.88
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]]> The Most Dangerous Game 157076 The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.]]> 48 Richard Connell 1599869691 Chamrosh 0 to-read, short 3.93 1924 The Most Dangerous Game
author: Richard Connell
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1924
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa]]> 40961621 King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West]]> 442 Adam Hochschild Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.16 1998 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
author: Adam Hochschild
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1998
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]]> Bibliomania 221396300 336 Orval 8871824679 Chamrosh 0 to-read, comics 3.50 Bibliomania
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.50
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]]> Cry Your Way Home 36204153
Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. DNA doesn鈥檛 define us, gravity doesn鈥檛 hold us, a home doesn鈥檛 mean we belong. From circus tents to space stations, Damien Angelica Walters creates stories that are both achingly familiar and chillingly surreal. Within her second short story collection, she questions who the real monsters are, rips families apart and stiches them back together, and turns a cell phone into the sharpest of weapons.

Cry Your Way Home brings together seventeen stories that delve deep into human sorrow and loss, weaving pain, fear, and ultimately resilience into beautiful tales that are sure to haunt you long after you finish the collection.

鈥淥nce upon a time there was a girl鈥︹漖]> 240 Damien Angelica Walters 1937009610 Chamrosh 0 to-read, short 4.17 2018 Cry Your Way Home
author: Damien Angelica Walters
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Night, Forever (Sam Carver, #3)]]> 60377024
Los Angeles is not itself. Rain falls hard every day. Homeless men are set on fire in their tents. Detective Sam Carver chases leads into a maze of militias and neo-Nazis. But before he gets too deep into the case, a past that has haunted him for years returns in the name of Dylan Cross. The killer who got away. Carver knows she has murdered again, but no one believes him. She leaves him clues, writes him notes, tempts him. She wants him to betray everything he is. He is drawn to her by the damage and demons they both carry. But he is certain that when they meet again, only one will survive. This is a love story of delusion and obsession, and how the dark things we desire reveal the truths that made us.]]> 322 Jeffrey Fleishman Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.98 Good Night, Forever (Sam Carver, #3)
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]]> Grief Is for People 127282631 Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this disarmingly witty and poignant memoir.

Grief Is for People is a deeply moving and surprisingly suspenseful portrait of friendship and a book about loss packed with verve for life. Sloane Crosley is one of our most renowned observers of contemporary behavior, and now the pathos that has been ever present in her trademark wit is on full display. After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in friends, philosophy, and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.]]> 208 Sloane Crosley 0374609845 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.84 2024 Grief Is for People
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.84
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]]> The Water Dancer 43982054 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her鈥攂ut was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he鈥檚 ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia鈥檚 proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he鈥檚 enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram鈥檚 resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.

This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children鈥攖he violent and capricious separation of families鈥攁nd the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today鈥檚 most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.]]> 416 Ta-Nehisi Coates Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.03 2019 The Water Dancer
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ministry of Utmost Happiness]]> 32388712
Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who love her.]]> 445 Arundhati Roy 067008963X Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.54 2017 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
author: Arundhati Roy
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2017
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]]> The Shards 60880820 A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city.

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.

17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling pre-occupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them--and Bret in particular--with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends--or his own mind--to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.

Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero LA, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17-sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.
]]> 595 Bret Easton Ellis 059353560X Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.98 2023 The Shards
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> A History of Wild Places 56898223
Called "Pastoral," this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn鈥檛 exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it鈥 he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James.

Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis鈥檚 abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there鈥檚 a risk of bringing a disease鈥rot鈥攊nto Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn鈥檛 as safe as they believed鈥攁nd that darkness takes many forms.

Hauntingly beautiful, hypnotic, and bewitching, A History of Wild Places is a story about fairy tales, our fear of the dark, and losing yourself within the wilderness of your mind.]]> 354 Shea Ernshaw 1982164808 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.92 2021 A History of Wild Places
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania]]> 22551730
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat.

Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.

It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle to President Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war.]]> 430 Erik Larson 0307408868 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.10 2015 Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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]]> <![CDATA[Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation]]> 57693601 Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the private investigator who helped crack it open.

Erika Krouse has one of those faces. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know why I鈥檓 telling you this,鈥 people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Krouse accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she鈥檚 doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Krouse knows she should turn the assignment down; her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway, inspired by Grayson鈥檚 conviction that he could help change things forever--and maybe she could, too.

Over the next five years, Krouse learns everything she can about P. I. technique, tracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the university鈥檚 football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, she finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time, she must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself.]]> 288 Erika Krouse 1250240301 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.74 2022 Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)]]> 23168277
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.]]> 371 Viet Thanh Nguyen 0802123457 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.00 2015 The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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]]> A Ladder to the Sky 40400269
Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful 鈥 but desperately lonely 鈥 older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice鈥檚 first novel.

Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . .

Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso.]]> 362 John Boyne 1984823019 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.18 2018 A Ladder to the Sky
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]]> I Might Be in Trouble 210331628 A suspenseful, satirical dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead鈥攁nd must then decide how far he鈥檚 willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next big book.

A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a resounding success, which made the publication of his second book鈥攁 total flop鈥攁ll the more devastating. Now, David is single, lonely, and desperately trying to come up with the next great idea for his third manuscript, one that will redeem him in the eyes of readers, reviewers鈥nd maybe even his ex-boyfriend.

The issue is, good ideas are hard to come by, and the mounting pressure of a near-empty bank account isn鈥檛 helping. But when David connects with a sexy stranger on a dating app, he figures a wild night out in New York City may be just what he needs to find inspiration. Lucky for him, his date turns out to be handsome, confident, and wealthy, not to mention the perfect distraction from yet another evening staring at a blank screen.

After one of the best nights of his life, David wakes up hungover but giddy鈥攐nly to find prince charming dead next to him in bed. Horrified, completely confused, and suddenly faced with the implausible-but-somehow-plausible idea that he may have actually killed his date, David calls the only person he can trust in a moment of crisis: his literary agent, Stacey.

Together, David and Stacey must untangle the events of the previous night, cover their tracks, and spin the entire misadventure into David鈥檚 career-defining novel鈥攊f only they can figure out what to do with the body first.]]> 329 Daniel Aleman 1538766345 Chamrosh 0 to-read, otherwise-queer 3.60 2024 I Might Be in Trouble
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]]> Water Moon 211479192 A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical journey when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike and enchanting fantasy novel.

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones鈥攖hose who are lost鈥攚ill find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.

Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop鈥檚 new owner to find it ransacked, the shop鈥檚 most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.

Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana鈥檚 father and the stolen choice鈥攂y way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds.

But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own鈥攁nd risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.]]> 384 Samantha Sotto Yambao 0593724992 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.78 2025 Water Moon
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]]> <![CDATA[A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)]]> 58132544
As Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all.]]> 480 Rebecca Ross 0063055988 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.06 2022 A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
author: Rebecca Ross
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Three Lives of Cate Kay 223370541 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.

Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she鈥檚 one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn鈥檛 really exist. She鈥檚 never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now.

As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars. But the day before their grand adventure, a tragedy shattered their dreams and Cate has been on the run ever since, taking on different names and charting a new future. But after a shocking revelation, Cate understands that returning home is the only way she鈥檒l be a whole person again.]]> 304 Kate Fagan 1668076217 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.80 2025 The Three Lives of Cate Kay
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]]> They Tell Me of a Home 1254153 Twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas--a place he left when he was eighteen, vowing never to return. Yet fate and a Ph.D. in black studies force him back to his rural origins as he seeks to understand himself and the black community that produced him. A cold, nonchalant father and an emotionally indifferent mother make his return, after a ten-year hiatus, practically unbearable, and the discovery of his baby sister's death and her burial in the backyard almost consumes him. His mother watches his agony when he discovers his sister's tombstone, but neither she nor other family members is willing to disclose the secret of her death. Only after being prodded incessantly does his older brother, Willie James, relent and provide Tommy Lee with enough knowledge to figure out exactly what happened and why. Meanwhile, Tommy's seventy-year-old teacher--lying on her deathbed--asks him to remain in Swamp Creek and assume her position as the headmaster of the one-room schoolhouse. He refuses vehemently and she dies having bequeathed him her five thousand-book collection in the hopes that he will change his mind. Over the course of a one-week visit, riddled with tension, heartache, and revelation, Tommy Lee Tyson discovers truths about his family, his community, and his undeniable connection to rural Southern black folk and their ways.

]]> 352 Daniel Black 0312362838 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.14 2005 They Tell Me of a Home
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]]> Isaac's Song 210719174 The beloved author of Don鈥檛 Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago鈥攁 novel of family, forgiveness and perseverance, for fans of The Great Believers and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

Isaac is at a crossroads in his young life. Growing up in Missouri, the son of a caustic, hard-driving father, he was conditioned to suppress his artistic pursuits and physical desires, notions that didn鈥檛 align with a traditional view of masculinity. But now, in late 鈥80s Chicago, Isaac has finally carved out a life of his own. He is sensitive and tenderhearted and has built up the courage to seek out a community. Yet just as he begins to embrace who he is, two social catalysts鈥攖he AIDS crisis and Rodney King鈥檚 attack鈥攃ollectively extinguish his hard-earned joy. At a therapist鈥檚 encouragement, Isaac begins to write down his story. In the process, he taps into a creative energy that will send him on a journey back to his family, his ancestral home in Arkansas and the inherited trauma of the nation鈥檚 dark past. But a surprise discovery will either unlock the truths he鈥檚 seeking or threaten to derail the life he鈥檚 fought so hard to claim.

Poignant, sweeping and luminously told, Isaac's Song is a return to the beloved characters of Don鈥檛 Cry for Me and a high-water mark in the career of an award-winning author.]]> 320 Daniel Black 133509041X Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.29 2025 Isaac's Song
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]]> Welcome Back, Alice, Vol. 1 59421555
In this story of adolescent awakening, perversion, and love, Oshimi takes a bold approach and sets out to explore the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and identity.]]> 196 Shuzo Oshimi 1647291046 Chamrosh 0 to-read, otherwise-queer 3.52 2020 Welcome Back, Alice, Vol. 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity]]> 58169 Where do ideas come from?

In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch provides a rare window into his methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

Lynch describes the experience of "diving within" and "catching" ideas like fish - and then preparing them for television or movie screens, and other mediums in which he works, such as painting, music, and design. Lynch writes for the first time about his more than three-decade commitment to Transcendental Meditation and the difference it has made in his creative process.

In brief chapters, Lynch explains the development of his ideas - where they came from, how he grasps them, and which ones appeal to him the most. He specifically discusses how he puts his thoughts into action and how he engages with others around him. Finally, he considers the self and the surrounding world - and how the process of "diving within" that has so deeply affected his own work can directly benefit others.

Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally intriguing to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.]]> 181 David Lynch 1585425400 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.78 2006 Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
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]]> <![CDATA[Hallowed Murder (Jane Lawless, #1)]]> 1167814

Nominated: 1990 Minnesota Book Award for Best Crime Fiction
Nominated: 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery
Nominated: 1996 Golden Earphones Award (Audio World), Best Unabridged Book
Winner: 1996 Golden Earphones Award (Audio World), Best Reader of an unabridged work, Carol Jordan Stewart for her reading of Hallowed Murder]]> 231 Ellen Hart 0312319312 Chamrosh 0 to-read, lesbian 3.57 1989 Hallowed Murder (Jane Lawless, #1)
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.57
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]]> UNDR 17204320
From his dreams the most popular virtual realities are constructed 鈥 but he has disappeared into the underworld.
And Alina Nemitz, a top executive of the Nets, will be thrown from her good life in the beautiful city unless she finds him. But that means returning to her shadowy past to find him.

The only one who can help her is her ex-lover, Barkas Todd, whom she has ordered executed.

And only Mikel Smith, a test-tube spy with no imagination, knows where the Dreamer is - if he doesn't fall victim to the Lady of the Awakening, leader of the Unreals.

Meanwhile, Symington, a bizarre recluse in the war-slagged regions Outside, is preparing an invasion of the city.

Thus the Dreamer is scared. If he falls asleep, the Unreals 鈥 everything that has never existed and cannot even be imagined 鈥 will come crashing through his dreams and destroy reality.]]> 242 James David Audlin 1470026937 Chamrosh 0 to-read 5.00 2011 UNDR
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average rating: 5.00
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zaf贸n Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.26 2001 The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
author: Carlos Ruiz Zaf贸n
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.26
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]]> The House of Asterion 51196789 The House of Asterion was written over a period of two days. The story explores themes of death, redemption, and the nature of monstrosity. Its narrative style has been referred to as a "literary puzzle", with the narrator's identity not fully revealed until the end of the story.]]> 2 Jorge Luis Borges Chamrosh 0 to-read, unusual 4.46 The House of Asterion
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]]> The Library of Babel 172366 36 Jorge Luis Borges 156792123X Chamrosh 4 to-read If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. The loneliness seeps through the page. This is an obviously incredible short story, and it inspired so much that came after it. I was reminded of Piranesi, which no doubt took cues from the Library. I am sometimes floored by how much stories can accomplish with so little, that this made me anxious and sad with only a few pages.]]> 4.35 1941 The Library of Babel
author: Jorge Luis Borges
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1941
rating: 4
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If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.
The loneliness seeps through the page. This is an obviously incredible short story, and it inspired so much that came after it. I was reminded of Piranesi, which no doubt took cues from the Library. I am sometimes floored by how much stories can accomplish with so little, that this made me anxious and sad with only a few pages.
]]> <![CDATA[When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth]]> 680806

This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years.


We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions.


Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.]]> 312 Elizabeth Wayland Barber 0691127743 Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.23 2004 When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
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]]> The Honey Witch 196726166 The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn鈥檛 believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
听
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who鈥檝e tried to woo her. So when her grandmother whisks her away to the family cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to train her as the next Honey Witch, she accepts immediately. But her newfound magic and independence come with a price: No one can fall in love with the Honey Witch.
听
When Lottie Burke, a notoriously grumpy skeptic who doesn鈥檛 believe in magic, shows up on her doorstep, Marigold can鈥檛 resist the challenge to prove to her that magic is real. But soon, Marigold begins to care for Lottie in ways she never expected. And when darker magic awakens and threatens to destroy her home, she must fight for much more than her new home鈥攁t the risk of losing her magic and her heart.]]> 368 Sydney J. Shields 0316568864 Chamrosh 0 lesbian, to-read 3.57 2024 The Honey Witch
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]]> <![CDATA[Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)]]> 47212 HARRY DRESDEN 鈥 WIZARD

Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.

Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things鈥攁nd most don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a鈥攚ell, whatever. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.

So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get interesting.

Magic - it can get a guy killed.]]> 372 Jim Butcher 0451457811 Chamrosh 4 I withdrew in silence and left her to her weeping. Perhaps it would help her start to heal.
To me, it only sounded like pieces of glass falling from a shattered window. Hell yeah!! I love this grimy urban fantasy detective novel shit. Storm Front is super silly (talking skull porn addict levels), but doesn't shy away from concepts of gruesome murder, domestic abuse, etc. Found it really stupid but charming, & now I need to read the rest of the series asap.]]> 3.99 2000 Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
author: Jim Butcher
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2000
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I withdrew in silence and left her to her weeping. Perhaps it would help her start to heal.
To me, it only sounded like pieces of glass falling from a shattered window.
Hell yeah!! I love this grimy urban fantasy detective novel shit. Storm Front is super silly (talking skull porn addict levels), but doesn't shy away from concepts of gruesome murder, domestic abuse, etc. Found it really stupid but charming, & now I need to read the rest of the series asap.
]]> The Kindly Ones 3755250

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times of London

"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened."

A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music, he is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Eichmann, Himmler, G枚ring, Speer, Heydrich, H枚ss鈥攅ven Hitler himself鈥攑lay a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, The Kindly Ones is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity鈥攁nd the reader cannot look away.

]]> 984 Jonathan Littell 0061353450 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.90 2006 The Kindly Ones
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid]]> 2033013 276 Malcolm Lowry 0330313185 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.79 1968 Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid
author: Malcolm Lowry
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.79
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]]> Memory of Fire 2104355
"From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is 'nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere... recounted in vivid prose.'"--The New Yorker]]> 919 Eduardo Galeano 0704302195 Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.44 1988 Memory of Fire
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.44
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]]> S.: A Novel About the Balkans 1611720 201 Slavenka Drakuli膰 0670890979 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.31 1999 S.: A Novel About the Balkans
author: Slavenka Drakuli膰
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.31
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]]> Lucky Jim 395182 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers back in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that 鈥渢here was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.鈥 Kingsley Amis鈥檚 scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.

More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. As Christopher Hitchens has written, 鈥淚f you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable.鈥漖]> 296 Kingsley Amis 0140186301 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.77 1954 Lucky Jim
author: Kingsley Amis
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1954
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]]> Widow Fantasies 215346102 92 Hollay Ghadery 1774221144 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.57 Widow Fantasies
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]]> Personal Days 2026701
On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin.
Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It鈥檚 a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and 鈥淲here does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?鈥

Praise for PERSONAL DAYS
"Witty and appealing...Anyone who has ever groaned to hear 'impact' used as a verb will cheer as Park skewers the avatars of corporate speak, hellbent on debasing the language....Park has written what one of his characters calls 'a layoff narrative' for our times. As the economy continues its free fall, Park's book may serve as a handy guide for navigating unemployment and uncertainty. Does anyone who isn't a journalist think there can't be two books on the same subject at the same time? We need as many as we can get right now." 鈥 The New York Times Book Review

"Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated." 鈥"Three First Novels that Just Might Last," 鈥 Time

A "comic and creepy d茅but...Park transforms the banal into the eerie, rendering ominous the familiar request "Does anyone want anything from the outside world?" 鈥 The New Yorker

"The modern corporate office is to Ed Park's debut novel Personal Days what World War II was to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 鈥攁 theater of absurdity and injustice so profound as to defy all reason....Park may be in line to fill the shoes left by Kurt Vonnegut and other satirists par excellence." 鈥擲amantha Dunn, Los Angeles Times

"In Personal Days Ed Park has crafted a sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always adroit novel about office life...Sharp and lovely language." 鈥 Newsweek

"A warm and winning fiction debut." 鈥 Publishers Weekly

"I laughed until they put me in a mental hospital. But Personal Days is so much more than satire. Underneath Park's masterly portrait of wasted workaday lives is a pulsating heart, and an odd, buoyant hope." 鈥 Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan

"The funniest book I've read about the way we work now." 鈥揥illiam Poundstone, author of Fortune's Formula

"Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular." 鈥擧elen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai]]> 241 Ed Park 0812978579 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.26 2008 Personal Days
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]]> James Joyce 164434 887 Richard Ellmann 0195033817 Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.34 1959 James Joyce
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]]> Serotonin 44453053
Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." His young girlfriend hates him, his career is pretty much over, and he has to keep himself highly medicated to cope with day-to-day city life.

Struggling with "sex, male angst, solitude, consumerism, globalisation, urban planning, and more sex" (The Economist), Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses, and where, too, he had once been in love, and even鈥攊t now seems鈥攈appy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and European agricultural policies, and local farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to what they remember as a golden age: the smaller world of the premodern era.

As the farmers prepare for what might be an armed insurrection, it becomes clear that the health of one miserable body and a suffering body politic are not so different, in the end, and that all concerned may be rushing toward a catastrophe a whole drugstore's worth of antidepressants won't be enough to make bearable.]]> 309 Michel Houellebecq 0374261024 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.58 2019 Serotonin
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]]> Brightness Falls 415854 Brightness Falls is the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway. Set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success, then getting lost in the middle of their lives.]]> 432 Jay McInerney 0679745327 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.78 1992 Brightness Falls
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]]> Songdogs 830966
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.]]> 224 Colum McCann 0312147414 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.84 1995 Songdogs
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name: Chamrosh
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]]> The Lost Scrapbook 587393 476 Evan Dara 1573660388 Chamrosh 0 to-read, history 4.31 1995 The Lost Scrapbook
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.31
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]]> The Garden 209553021
Yet a darker shadow looms over their journey. They are pursued relentlessly by an enigmatic adversary and his acolytes, an alchemic and malevolent force consumed by a twisted vision of remaking the world, leaving behind only ashes and a trail drenched in the crimson echoes of his relentless ambitions. As they navigate this unforgiving landscape the world teeters on the precipice of a profound occult metamorphosis where the seeds of fascism may also be seen to take root beneath the banner of manifest destiny.

In the bleak and disquieting prose of his debut novel Aidan Scott weaves a haunting tale of survival, morality and the eerie birth of an unsettling future where the land itself will bear witness to the horrors of humanity鈥檚 inexorable pursuit of power and a destiny shrouded in enigma and dread.]]> 400 Aidan Scott Chamrosh 0 4.72 The Garden
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]]> The Bonfire of the Vanities 2666 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.

The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens' writings: It ran in 27 installments in Rolling Stone starting in 1984. Wolfe heavily revised it before it was published in book form. The novel was a bestseller and a phenomenal success, even in comparison with Wolfe's other books. It has often been called the quintessential novel of the 1980s.]]> 690 Tom Wolfe Chamrosh 0 3.89 1987 The Bonfire of the Vanities
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]]> Europe Central 12398 811 William T. Vollmann 0143036599 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.96 2005 Europe Central
author: William T. Vollmann
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American Fiction)]]> 45633 You Bright and Risen Angels is the work of an extraordinary imagination. In this free-wheeling novel of epic proportions, William T. Vollmann has crafted a biting, hilarious satire of history, technology, politics, and misguided love.]]> 635 William T. Vollmann 0140110879 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.04 1987 You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American Fiction)
author: William T. Vollmann
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox]]> 20706229
What started as a lark -- sending playful rejection notes to writers who鈥檇 submitted work for the site -- over ten years took on a life of its own, becoming an outlet for Klein to meditate on his aesthetic preferences, the purpose of literature, and the space between the ideal and the real.

Praise for Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck

"These tiny, tight bursts of writing hummed with energy that hopscotched among comical, cruel, warm, demented, high level and nitpicky. Send him a piece of your soul on Microsoft Word, Klein seemed to believe, and you deserved a piece of his soul right back. An amazing little act of generosity, considering the number of terrible pieces of writing out there. (Klein estimates that he has tapped out more than a thousand original rejections.)"

-- Jamie Allen in

"Somewhere on the brutal truth continuum between Bill Hicks and Mussolini, Lee Klein鈥檚 rejection letters are mini-masterpieces of literary criticism disguised as no-thank-yous from Writer鈥檚 Hell. And yet, in each, a little lesson; a steadfast faith that says 'I took the time to read what you created and this is exactly what I thought.' They should be passing these things out under the pillows at MFA camp; we鈥檇 all be better off."

鈥- Blake Butler, author of "There Is No Year" and "Sky Saw"

"Sometimes writers who succeed against the odds brag about the number of rejections they鈥檝e accumulated. A rejection from Eyeshot鈥檚 Lee Klein is a whole different badge of honor. Like a letter from a serial killer on death row, your Tea Party inlaws, or the Pope, they鈥檙e suitable for framing and brilliantly repugnant. I kind of want to send him a really shitty story just so I can get one of these in return."

-鈥 Ryan Boudinot, author of "Blueprints of the Afterlife"

"To 'decide' is to 'cut,' and Lee Klein in the highly honed collection of rejections, Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck, wields a drawer full of gleaming cutlery, edgy edged instruments of decision. Surely, he holds his pen like a surgeon holds the scalpel. These serrated graphs of glee and screed are incisive incisions鈥攌atana, rattled sabers, sharp-tongued stilettos of the split-lipped kiss-off."

-鈥 Michael Martone, author of "Michael Martone" and "Four for a Quarter"

"Lee Klein made me cry. He was the only editor ever to make me. This was back in 2002. I wish I still had the email. I remember it going something like, 'whenever you have the instinct to write a line like that, delete it immediately, without prejudice.' I hated him for a while. I pictured him looking like the guy in that 90鈥檚 movie Heavy (the one with Liv Tyler), except housebound and with no redeemable qualities. Then, somewhere around 2004, I met him 'IRL' and he was soft-spoken and sweet. It was harder to hate him after that. Reading all of these rejection letters here in this book made me finally fall a little in love with him, I think. I think if I had had access to (and disassociation from) these letters then, I might have fallen in love with him then. This is the funniest book I have read in a long time. It is also the smartest. I feel confused now, like I鈥檓 unsure whether to love or hate Lee Klein. But both of us are married now so it doesn鈥檛 really matter."

鈥- Elizabeth Ellen, author of "Fast Machine

"I was reluctant to start reading the book because it begins around 2001 and at that time you weren't mentally or physically or fiscally at your strongest. There's a manic quality to some of the rejections, and the way you build up momentum in your responses is kind of funny, almost the way Belushi used to work himself up and then throw himself to the floor. I like the sub-story that's your life that's happening. You're funny and weird and sometimes I flinch for the recipient of your rejections, other times you seem like a sweet snark. I have a distinct memory of meeting you for lunch after you were rejected from a job interview or something and I was brutally rejected by a curator of the Drawing Center. You looked very pale and the surface of your skin was oddly moist, like you were really sick. I was worried. It was after 9/11 and all the rest. You led a very unhealthy life in those days, way too ...]]> 224 Lee Klein 0988994526 Chamrosh 0 to-read, unusual 4.37 2014 Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox
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]]> Neutral Evil ))) 52107671 120 Lee Klein 1944697829 Chamrosh 0 to-read, unusual 4.61 Neutral Evil )))
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]]> The Painted Word 2671 112 Tom Wolfe 0553380656 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.83 1975 The Painted Word
author: Tom Wolfe
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.83
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]]> Aannex 60757788 446 Blake Butler 1954899173 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.24 2022 Aannex
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.24
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]]> Darconville's Cat 193408
Darconville鈥檚 Cat is a novel about love and hate. Among other matters, it deals with delicate tensions between Life and Art, the Ideal and the Real, God and Satan, and, above all, with the crises and conflicts between Man and Woman, the tragic implications of which reach all the way back to the Primal Fall.

Its chapters embody a multiplicity of narrative forms, including a diary, a formal oration, an abecedarium, a sermon, a litany, a blank-verse play, poems, essays, parodies, and fables. It is an explosion of vocabulary, rich with comic invention and dark with infernal imagination.

Alexander Theroux restores words to life, invents others, liberates a language too long polluted by mutters and mumbles, anti-logic, and the inexact lunacies of the modern world where the possibility of communication itself is in question. An elegantly executed jailbreak from the ordinary, Darconville鈥檚 Cat is excessive; funny; uncompromising; a powerful epic, coming out of a tradition, yet contempo- rary, of both the sacred and the profane.]]> 720 Alexander Theroux 0805043659 Chamrosh 0 to-read, unusual 4.21 1981 Darconville's Cat
author: Alexander Theroux
name: Chamrosh
average rating: 4.21
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]]> 'Salem's Lot 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King鈥檚 classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King鈥檚 archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem鈥檚 Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem鈥檚 Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector鈥檚 item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]> 594 Stephen King 0385516487 Chamrosh 0 to-read 4.28 1975 'Salem's Lot
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]]> <![CDATA[Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)]]> 25526296 Eleanor West鈥檚 Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she鈥檚 back. The things she鈥檚 experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West鈥檚 care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy鈥檚 arrival marks a change at the Home. There鈥檚 a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it鈥檚 up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.

No matter the cost.]]> 176 Seanan McGuire 0765385503 Chamrosh 0 to-read 3.81 2016 Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
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]]> Eros/Psyche #1 57445193 Sara and Silje are two students learning the rules of the school, which includes classes by day...and the casting of curses and spells by night. A love develops between the two, which is tender, but threatens to break under the weight of the dark secret society within The Rose.

Acclaimed creator Maria Llovet (Faithless, Heartbeat, Loud) brings you a surreal, bewitching tale of love, magic, and tragedy in Eros/Psyche]]> 36 Maria Llovet Chamrosh 0 to-read, lesbian 3.18 2021 Eros/Psyche #1
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name: Chamrosh
average rating: 3.18
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