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Reviewing a classic: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

Posted on August 30, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info (from Goodreads): Jason Taverner woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, … Continue reading →

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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle 01) by Ursula le Guin

Posted on March 22, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info (from Goodreads): Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe 05) by Raymond Chandler

Posted on August 24, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info:  (from Goodreads): Chandler’s 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter capital, trying to find a sweet young thing’s missing brother. A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe 04) by Raymond Chandler

Posted on July 27, 2018 by portiabridget

Product info (from Goodreads): A couple of missing wives—one a rich man’s and one a poor man’s—become the objects of Marlowe’s investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: Sinuhe the Egyptian by Mika Waltari

Posted on May 3, 2016 by portiabridget

A quote instead of synopsis (because it is a pretty good quote and explains roughly everything): “I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of the gods … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevski

Posted on November 17, 2015 by portiabridget

Synopsis (mostly from Goodreads): Returning to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland an epileptic young man and also a descendant of one of the oldest Russian lines of nobility, Prince Myshkin, finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love. He is … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: Memoirs of Harriette Wilson by Harriette Wilson

Posted on January 23, 2015 by portiabridget

I am not going to include any synopsis here because it doesn’t make sense. How to summarize memoirs? One of the most famous ladies of ill repute of the Regency London (the beginning of the 19th century) tells you about some … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Posted on November 28, 2014 by portiabridget

Synopsis: A naïve young woman whose name is supposed to be ‘rare’ and ‘original’ (Daphne?) but is never revealed in the book, stays in a Monte Carlo hotel along with a rich woman, Mrs. Van Hopper, who has employed her as … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a Classic: Emma by Jane Austen

Posted on May 14, 2014 by portiabridget

Synopsis: Twenty-year-old Emma Woodhouse lives with her hypochondriac, almost senile father at Hartfield, a small estate dwarfed by nearby Donwell Abbey. The owner of Donwell Abbey is the forthright family friend and Emma’s brother-in-law Mr. Knightley. When Emma’s governess and … Continue reading →

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Reviewing a classic: Ulysses by James Joyce

Posted on May 6, 2014 by portiabridget

Synopsis: William Blake saw the universe in a grain of sand – he was a genius visionary. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality – he was a genius writer. … Continue reading →

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