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murmur rated To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: 3 stars
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (2021, Independently Published)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …
murmur rated Normal People: 3 stars
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
Rubbish. A quarter of it is love scenes. Very steamy like fifty shades of grey
murmur rated Homo Faber: 1 star
Max Frisch: Homo Faber (1994)
Homo Faber by Max Frisch
Homo Faber (German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in …
murmur rated The Lottery: 5 stars
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (Tale Blazers)
A cautionary short story about the dangers of unexamined traditions and the dark side of human nature.
murmur rated What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: 5 stars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, …
murmur rated The Savage Detectives: 5 stars
murmur rated The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker): 4 stars
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker) by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin classics)
murmur rated Homage to Catalonia: 5 stars
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Penguin books -- 1699)
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, …
murmur rated The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There and back again: 3 stars
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The …
murmur rated The Grapes of Wrath: 4 stars
murmur rated Dubliners James Joyce 1914: 4 stars
Dubliners James Joyce 1914 by Richard Ellmann
Dubliners is a collection of vignettes of Dublin life at the end of the 19th Century written, by Joyce’s own …
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the …
murmur rated A Confederacy of Dunces: 4 stars
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …
murmur rated Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: 4 stars
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse, Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …