 The LinnetBy Elizabeth English (aka Elizabeth Minogue) Read: June 2010 Rating: Sigh. I have been waiting to read this book since I read The Prince (Jan ’06). I loved that so much that I immediately set my sights on the only other book under this name. Alas, The Linnet does not live up to The Prince’s [...] |
 Defiant SpitfireBy Kay McMahon Not Read: April 2010 Rating: AUGH Coming out of Beyond Heaving Bosoms, I naturally wanted to indulge in some of the best/worst of the genre. I swapped for this book a short while ago and figured it was as good a place to start as any. But the Smart Bitches have just [...] |
 AmazonBy Barbara G. Walker Not Read: Feb 2010 Rating: *zones out* I’m trying to be good, really I am. But 50 pages out of 170 isn’t such a bad run… The book is awkward and boring and it reads like what it is–a work of fiction by a feminist scholar that has been described (by [...] |
 A Knight in Shining ArmorBy Jude Deveraux Attempted to Read: January 2010 Rating: AUGH Wot the shit is this?! Today, RB stands for RIDICULOUSLY BAD. Hey Jude don’t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you’ll begin to make it better Better, better, better, better, better, Yeah,Yeah,YeahNa [...] |
 Wuthering HeightsBy Emily Bronte Read: March 2009 Rating: Poison I give up. I quit. I want nothing more to do with this torturous mess. I decided it was time to try Wuthering Heights because my TiVo had picked up a documentary on the Bronte sisters, which was of course full of people who think they’re the [...] |
 Wagner the WerewolfBy George W. M. Reynolds Attempted Read: Feb 2009 Rating: Goddamn. Just… goddamn. I saw this at Strand Books and spent MONTHS hemming and hawing over whether or not I should put my money toward it. Pro: It’s a book from the 1800s about a werewolf in the 1500s. HOT DAMN it’s historical fiction^2 with [...] |
 Beautylicious!: The Black Girl’s Guide to the Fabulous LifeBy Jenyne M Raines Read: May 2008 Rating: Appalling. Somehow this book wound up in the teen section of the public library. Keep it away from your impressionable young women. The advice is not black-specific, it’s very general and you could find most of it in a myriad of similar titles. The most ‘black’ thing [...] |
 The Twentieth WifeBy Indu Sundaresan Read: August 2006 Rating: Lackluster. I love historical fiction. I love romance. And I love Philippa Gregory, despite not always liking what her characters do. So I should be able to get through a book like this, right? I’m still barely a quarter of the way through, and I’m putting it down. [...] |
 This Side of ParadiseBy F. Scott Fitzgerald Rating: One big fat middle finger up Fitzgerald’s arsehole. Read: Over the summer between my freshman and sophomore years, 2001. Frankly, the most self-indulgent piece of tripe I’ve ever been forced to read. It was a summer reading assignment, and one of two terrible books I brought on a visit to [...] |
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Where Roses Grow Wild by Patricia Cabot |
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Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant |
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith |
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Knight Life (Modern Arthur, #1) by Peter David |
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