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Rating: 2/5 Genre: Mystery “On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There’s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it’s more than a year before the man is identified. And …
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Rating: 5/5 Genre: Horror Trigger Warning (Safe Review) “Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary’s reservations …
Continue reading “Book Review: Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin”
I was able to read 9 books in September, which was more than I thought I would get through with grad school and work. My favorite book this month was The Institute by Stephen King, but some close contenders were And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, …
Rating: 5/5 Genre: Horror/Middle Grade “After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think — she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read …
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