bookshelves: winter-20132014, re-visit-2014, re-read, radio-4x, paper-read, mystery-thriller, north-americas, published-1992, classic, contemporary, skoolzy-stuff, cults-societies-brotherhoods, debut, recreational-homicide, tragedy Read from January 01, 2004 to January 24, 2014 Another tick in m...
This book lived up to every piece of hype I'd ever heard about it. As a classics major myself, it's hard to imagine something more tailor-made to simultaneously horrify and delight. I think it doesn't read as shocking now as it would have when it was first published -- hello, Flowers in the Attic an...
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.The Secret History is an odd sort of book. It fee...
"Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks ar...
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunney had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. That's the first line of the novel, and by the end of the second page we learn that it was murder, and at least four people were involved including the first pe...
You can find more of my reviews plus discussions and giveaways at Christina Reads YA. On occasion I'm in the mood to read something a bit darker, more mature than most of the YA fare stocked on my shelves. I don't usually review adult titles, but this one is set on a college campus and may have so...
The second book in the Louise Recommends challenge – where Louise gets to force a book on me every three months. She said [a:Donna Tartt|8719|Donna Tartt|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1380323240p2/8719.jpg]'s [b:The Secret History|70897|The Secret History|Donna Tartt|https://d202m5kr...
This novel started out with so much promise, but ultimately left too many unanswered questions. For a book that tells you right at the beginning that a murder was committed, it still left too many dangling threads that went nowhere. It could have been so much better if Tartt would have explored the ...
A story of 5 students who shared a dark secret that led them to bad things. Like I told a friend, it's like Dead Poet Society with an edge.I admit it took me time to finish this one, not because it was poorly written but it was just one of those reads that you savor, you pause once in a while to pon...
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