Tag Archives: romance

Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4)

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Tietsu

This book is a mess. The prologue is a poorer version of the third’s final chapter. The rest of the book seems clumsily contrived to force out the truth of Roland’s past. And so we are left with 100 pages … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Tietsu

God, I hate short story collections. They are damn near impossible to review. Unless you have somehow managed to find one written in a single year long cluster there it virtually no way to engage it properly. It’s like having … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Tietsu

I seem to have stumbled across a niche I didn’t realize existed. The genre is simple, or not, depending on your judgment of such things: charming prose exploring an overlapping space between magic and the real, the quintessential familiar and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Tietsu

Have you ever had someone you love scream over while you try to explain away something a gossipy middle-aged women told her in your drawing room? No? Me neither. In fact, if someone that claimed to love me refused to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Tietsu

Plays are a tricky thing to my mind. You inexorably tied to the patience of the audience and thereby you are forbidden from going over a certain number of pages or overcomplicating your narrative. I’m struggled to find a playwrights … Continue reading →

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