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So, I Read This Book Today . . .
So, I Read This Book Today . . . rated it 10 years ago
Non omnis moriar: I shall not altogether die. – Horace, Odes 3:30 What if we’re all like that? Like ghosts … in someone’s mind … gradually fading … fading … until finally … one day … we just disappear … drift into nothingness. Wouldn’t that be sad? – Walter Wykes, Fading Joy “Nobel Prize-winning...
BuckeyeAngel
BuckeyeAngel rated it 10 years ago
**I received an ARC of this story in exchange for an honest review**Jack is a perpetual student. He got into another screw up so his father is sending him to England to help out a friend named Daniel. Daniel is a neuroscientist who dropped out of research two decades earlier. He was trying to identi...
CheriePie's Books
CheriePie's Books rated it 10 years ago
Eloise Blake is on the run from a life she no longer remembers. Having went into some kind of fugue state that's lasted about two years now, she's left behind her former life as Jenilee Gray, taken up a new hobby with a tribe of free runners, and is living in a run down squat. Eloise's new identity ...
Great Book Ecapes
Great Book Ecapes rated it 10 years ago
Jennilee is a girl who is in a ‘fugue’ state - having reinvented her identity after an amnesic episode. Eloise as she is now known is having a shatter ('flashback') of memory not necessarily her own and not only that but someone is trying to kill her. During a moment of a shatter Mostert beautifully...
My Book Blog
My Book Blog rated it 10 years ago
I was given a free copy for an honest review.I am a fan of Natasha Mostert, and when I saw her new book on NetGalley I hopped on it.This book deals with memory, a subject of my favorite book of hers, Seasons of the Witch. Eloise is a woman who is in a state of fugue : Her real name is Jenilee but sh...
Tellulah Darling
Tellulah Darling rated it 10 years ago
I loved Season of the Witch. So when I saw that Mostert had written another book dealing with memory, I was all in. I don't want to spoil anything because it's a joy to let this story unfold. But this tale deals with fugue states, the scientific quest to do good but at what cost , identity and a sur...
Claire loves to read!
Claire loves to read! rated it 10 years ago
Intriguing characters, in particular the enigmatic Monk sisters who entice lead character Gabriel into their lives whilst he tries to discover what has happened to a missing man. Mystery and magic combine to make this a really interesting book that proved engrossing after a slightly slow start. Pa...
this girl reading
this girl reading rated it 10 years ago
In her award-winning novel, Mostert blends alchemy, the art of memory, high magic and murder to create a highly original psychological thriller. Gabriel Blackstone is a cool, hip, thoroughly twenty-first century Londoner with an unusual talent. A computer hacker by trade, he is also a remote viewer:...
So, I Read This Book Today . . .
So, I Read This Book Today . . . rated it 11 years ago
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and...
"A Single Word ... "
"A Single Word ... " rated it 11 years ago
Beware of things that go bump in the night!! This e-book had me clutching my e-reader like a reader possessed. Now just so you know up front - this is not the book that the movie with Nicholas Cage & Ron Perlman was in. Okay, now that we have that out of the way. This is gothic style story has hin...
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