Rated Bernice Summerfield: Many Happy Returns 8/10
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Wants to read Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Rated Doctor Who: In the Bleak Midwinter 8/10
Rated Bloody January 8/10
<div>A really solid, suspenseful mystery, but WHEW is it GRIM.</div>
Rated Broken Ground 7/10
<div>This one's not quite as good as some of the others, but it was fine. The research seams show too much, and I wasn't as invested in the case.</div>
Rated Come Away 8/10
Good, with lots of wonderfully written passages, though some bits felt incomplete in a way I haven't yet been able to put my finger on. Review forthcoming.
Rated Doctor Who: Short Trips Rarities: An Eighth Doctor Collection 8/10
<div>Solid little collection. The narration is good.</div>
Rated By Nightfall 8/10
<i>By Nightfall</i> poses questions about success, how we define love and beauty, and what our basest instincts say about us when we are in peril. Michael Cunningham is an exceedingly good writer, more than deserving of the accolades he’s received over the years. I love any book that makes me identify and sympathize with a character through his/her bad decisions and confusion, since when we are truly honest with ourselves, we know we are capable of the very same things.<br><br>(Full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/02/by-nightfall-by-michael-cunningham.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Rated Bunny 8/10
<div>This book is as if THE LATE AMERICANS by Brandon Taylor were a horror novel filtered through Mean Girls and Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" video.<br><br>This is an endorsement.</div>
Rated Call Me By Your Name 10/10
This pressed on a few historic wounds, and I welcomed it.
Rated Cleanness 10/10
I always say that love, lust, loneliness, and longing are the main topics worth writing about, and this book has all of that. Well worth a read.
Rated Building Stories 10/10
What a design achievement. This is a beautifully put together graphic novel; I was a bit nervous handling my library copy. I have a few story quibbles regarding methods of demonstrating low self-esteem, but let's round up on the rating. This is quite something.
Reviewed Deschooling Society
<a href="https://smus.com/books/deschooling-society-by-ivan-illich">Full review on smus.com</a>