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Book Review – The Last House on Needless Street By Catriona Ward
The Last House on Needless Street is about Ted Bannerman, a loner who lives in the house at the end of the cul-de-sac that is Needless Street. It’s the house he grew up in with his mother. Sometimes he goes into the woods behind the house, sometimes he uses a dating website to meet women but theres never a second date. The Last House on Needless Street is also about Olivia, Ted’s cat, and Lauren, Ted’s daughter, who occasionally visits Ted at the house. Ted’s relationship with each is sometimes volatile. Olivia is a target when he’s drunk and Lauren is a captive ward whose warmth towards her father seems…
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How I Review Books
I know a lot of people are really incredibly professional and detailed about how they review books. They review absolutely everything they read, they review even when they hate the books, happy to lay it all out there for everyone to read, they have metrics and data points and a scoring system and everything. And that’s cool if that’s what you want to do I don’t do that I mostly review books that I’ve enjoyed in some aspect, and I have to admit I am mostly positive, there are times when I’m downright effusive. There is nothing inherently wrong with either approach, at least, I don’t think so. Others may…
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Library of a Librarian
Its me! Hello, I’m Emily I’m a librarian, and I read a lot, like a lot, a lot, and I really love sharing all the book bits and pieces with other people, people like you out there in the internet lands reading this who hopefully also loves reading and books and bits and pieces about books. Two years ago, I started a bookstagram because I got excited about books again, and I just wanted to share that with other people and find good books to read, other people who loved books and who were happy to chat about them. Now, I still want to do that, but I have found…
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