A 3.5, really, with moments of brilliance and imagery that will linger even if the sum was a double rather than a homer.
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Ted rated Circe: A Novel: 5 stars
Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe …
Ted rated Larry Mcmurtry: 5 stars
Ted reviewed Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what …
Review of 'Glorious Exploits' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Ted rated Four Thousand Weeks: 4 stars
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …
Ted rated The Big Sleep: 5 stars
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, …
Ted rated Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd: 4 stars
Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Cela fait tout juste un an que le mari de Mrs Ferrars est mort. D'une gastrite aiguë. Enfin, c'est ce …
Ted rated Artists in crime: 4 stars
Ngaio Marsh: Artists in crime (2012, Felony & Mayhem Press)
Artists in crime by Ngaio Marsh
It was a bizarre pose for beautiful model Sonia Gluck--and her last. For in the draperies of her couch lay …
Ted rated Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery): 4 stars
Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey (9))
Ted rated The Third Man: 4 stars
Ted rated Editor's Burial: 5 stars
Ted rated The Long Good-bye: 5 stars
The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the …
Ted rated Shakespeare and Company: 5 stars
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never …
Ted rated O Caledonia: 4 stars
Ted rated Normal People: 5 stars
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
Rubbish. A quarter of it is love scenes. Very steamy like fifty shades of grey