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What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …
Such a great and important book. Klein is a brilliant writer and researcher.
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Clare rated Doppelganger: 5 stars
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
Clare rated Persuasion: 5 stars
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months …
Clare rated Beautiful World, Where Are You: 3 stars
Clare rated The solace of open spaces: 5 stars
Clare reviewed Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A smart and driven man discovers nature’s secrets, but isn’t smart or empathetic enough to …
Review of 'Frankenstein' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
3.5/5
Clare rated A Guest in the House: 5 stars
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
In E.M. Carroll's haunting adult graphic novel horror story A Guest in the House, a young woman marries a kind …
Clare rated Mexican Gothic: 4 stars
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story …
Clare rated Garden Against Time: 4 stars
Clare rated A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 4 stars
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman …
Clare rated The Outsider: 5 stars
The Outsider by Albert Camus
L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as …
Clare rated To the North: 4 stars
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
A young woman’s secret love affair leads to a violent and tragic act in one of Elizabeth Bowen’s most acclaimed …
Clare rated The Hound of the Baskervilles: 5 stars
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (2001, Devon Books)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
In this classic mystery set in 19th-century England, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are faced with discovering the truth behind …
Clare rated The girls of slender means: 3 stars
The girls of slender means by Muriel Spark (New Directions classics)
The Girls of Slender Means is Dame Muriel Spark's tragic portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the …
Clare reviewed A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, …
Review of 'A Clockwork Orange' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Male dystopian writers seem to have an inability to see woman as people. They're either written to be victims of extreme violence, or naive fools. It's mind-blowing that authors like Burgess will write
an entire novel about the 'hypothetical' future where totalitarian governments strip the public of their bodily autonomy, yet are unable to see that this has already been the reality for woman for decades. Good story, interesting use of language, but the complete lack of woman (other than the assault victims and Alex's mother, whose only role seems to be to weep), bring my rating down to a 2.5