Those who regularly read my reviews won’t be surprised to hear me say I enjoy a book that takes me by surprise and leaves me thinking about what I’ve read long after I’ve finished it. The Children’s Home may well be the most surprising, thought provoking and also baffling book I’ve ever read. In man...
'For a moment, in this passing gesture, weary with affection, exasperated at the other man's stubbornness and refusal to understand, Morgan saw David before him, the man David might have become. "Have you learned nothing from all this?" Answer: ... No, not really... Morgan is a disfigured man wh...
I've been postponing this review for weeks now because basically I still don't know what to say about it. It was by far one of the weirdest books I've ever read. But not in the weird way that I usually quite like. No, I was wondering for almost the entire book if I wasn't somehow missing what was ...
Morgan has become horribly disfigured and lives by himself except for his housekeeper Engel. Morgan doesn't really do much but catalogs books in his library.He is alive but not “ living”. Then children start appearing at his house. The first being a baby named Moira. Then more come until there are s...
I received a free copy of this ebook through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My feelings about The Children’s Home by Charles Lambert are a little ambivalent. On one hand I like the writing style, it reminds me quite a bit of Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Never Let Me Go. The author uses a disjoin...
This little book has completely blown me away. It’s a stunning accomplishment by its author. I had chills running up and down my spine the whole time I was reading it. What a magical web it weaves around your heart and mind. There’s nothing to compare this book to. It’s a gruesome fairy tale, but...
The Children's Home by Charles Lambert exists somewhere between fairly tale and horror story with one disfigured man; one mysterious housekeeper; one doctor; many children who appear out of nowhere; and one factory. The writing and the details of this story keep me reading, but unfortunately I feel ...
There are many ways to react to finding a child on one’s doorstep. The most logical way to react is to call the authorities and have them search for the child. Morgan Fletcher, in spite of his disfigurement and desire for solitude, takes another option: he takes in the child he finds. Then he opens ...
Having enjoyed the stories included in Various Authors, and having been introduced to various authors, I was looking forward to The Fiction Desk's follow-up, All These Little Worlds (which for a few months I kept mis-reading as All These Little Words). No matter, since the anthology contains nine wo...
In 1983 Alex is asked by his mentor and lover Bruno to hold on to a few bags for him for a few days. When Alex returns to Bruno’s place after taking the bags to his own apartment he finds Bruno murdered and mutilated. Scared, Alex decides he has to get rid of the bags, which turn out to contain phot...
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