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Book Review – We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Eve and Charlie have just bought an old fixer-upper in the Oregon woods. Their plan is to fix it up and flip it. While Charlie is out one night, Eve hears a knock at the door when she opens it she discovers a family of five on her doorstep. The father, Thomas, says he used to live in the home and just wanted to show the family wife Paige and three kids the house as they were travelling past on the way to the their new home. Could they just come in for a moment and look around? Against her better judgement, Eve lets them in for 15 minutes, but…
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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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