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I'm Andy (he/him). I love to read and will read books from pretty much any genre. I love to talk about books too. I'm in Bristol, UK and I can’t write a good review to save my life!
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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Best Offer Wins
Marisa Kashino
An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly hilarious debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams? Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian—and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track—Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand). A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners’ lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged—but just when she thinks she’s won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize the dream life she’s been chasing. The most unsettling part? You’ll root for her, even as you gasp in disbelief. Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis.
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A perfectly good mystery/thriller. It kept my attention and I enjoyed the story. I felt the ending went on a bit too long. I read the ebook version with a bonus chapter. The bonus chapter was not needed.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Victoria Schwab
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.
This is a story about love.
1827. London.
A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.
This is a story about rage.
2019. Boston.
College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.
This is a story about life—
how it ends, and how it starts.
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None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
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The Essential Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.
Full cast of narrators include:
Fred Burman
Kevin Pariseau
Matt Godfrey
Peter Berkrot
Robert Fass
Timothy Andrés Pabon
Paul Woodson
Avi Roque
Raphael Corkhill
Foreword narrated by Leslie S. Klinger
Chapter 1: The Tomb narrated by Fred Berman
Chapter 2: Dagon narrated by Gregory Connors
Chapter 3: Polaris narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 4: Beyond the Wall of Sleep narrated by Dan Bittner
Chapter 5: The Transition of Juan Romero narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 6: The Statement of Randolph Carter narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 7: The Doom That Came to Sarnath narrated by Peter Berkrot
Chapter 8: The Terrible Old Man narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 9: The Cats of Ulthar narrated by Vikas Adam
Chapter 10: Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 11: The Temple narrated by Sascha Rotermund
Chapter 12: Celephaïs narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 13: From Beyond narrated by Mirron Willis
Chapter 14: Nyarlathotep narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 15: The Picture in the House narrated by Neil Hellegers
Chapter 16: Ex Oblivione narrated by Jason Culp
Chapter 17: The Nameless City narrated by Jonathan Davis
Chapter 18: The Quest of Iranon narrated by Avi Roque
Chapter 19: The Outsider narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 20: The Other Gods narrated by Vikas Adam
Chapter 21: The Music of Erich Zann narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 22: Herbert West: Reanimator narrated by Jay Snyder
Chapter 23: The Unnamable narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 24: The Hound narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 25: The Lurking Fear narrated by Jay Snyder
Chapter 26: The Rats in the Walls narrated by Paul Woodson
Chapter 27: The Festival narrated by Fred Berman
Chapter 28: Under the Pyramids narrated by Jonathan Davis
Chapter 29: The Shunned House narrated by Robert Fass
Chapter 30: The Horror at Red Hook narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 31: He narrated by Marc Vietor
Chapter 32: Cool Air narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
Chapter 33: The Call of Cthulhu narrated by Matt Godfrey
Chapter 34: The Silver Key narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 35: Pickman’s Model narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 36: The Strange High House in the Mist narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 37: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 38: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 39: The Colour Out of Space narrated by Gregory Connors
Chapter 40: History of the Necronomicon narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 41: The Dunwich Horror narrated by Marc Vietor
Chapter 42: The Whisperer in Darkness narrated by Kevin Pariseau
Chapter 43: At the Mountains of Madness narrated by Scott Brick
Chapter 44: The Shadow over Innsmouth narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 45: The Dreams in the Witch House narrated by Dan Bittner
Chapter 46: The Thing on the Doorstep narrated by Jason Culp
Chapter 47: The Shadow Out of Time narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 48: The Haunter of the Dark narrated by Neil Hellegers
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The Essential Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.
Full cast of narrators include:
Fred Burman
Kevin Pariseau
Matt Godfrey
Peter Berkrot
Robert Fass
Timothy Andrés Pabon
Paul Woodson
Avi Roque
Raphael Corkhill
Foreword narrated by Leslie S. Klinger
Chapter 1: The Tomb narrated by Fred Berman
Chapter 2: Dagon narrated by Gregory Connors
Chapter 3: Polaris narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 4: Beyond the Wall of Sleep narrated by Dan Bittner
Chapter 5: The Transition of Juan Romero narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 6: The Statement of Randolph Carter narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 7: The Doom That Came to Sarnath narrated by Peter Berkrot
Chapter 8: The Terrible Old Man narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 9: The Cats of Ulthar narrated by Vikas Adam
Chapter 10: Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 11: The Temple narrated by Sascha Rotermund
Chapter 12: Celephaïs narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 13: From Beyond narrated by Mirron Willis
Chapter 14: Nyarlathotep narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 15: The Picture in the House narrated by Neil Hellegers
Chapter 16: Ex Oblivione narrated by Jason Culp
Chapter 17: The Nameless City narrated by Jonathan Davis
Chapter 18: The Quest of Iranon narrated by Avi Roque
Chapter 19: The Outsider narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 20: The Other Gods narrated by Vikas Adam
Chapter 21: The Music of Erich Zann narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 22: Herbert West: Reanimator narrated by Jay Snyder
Chapter 23: The Unnamable narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 24: The Hound narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 25: The Lurking Fear narrated by Jay Snyder
Chapter 26: The Rats in the Walls narrated by Paul Woodson
Chapter 27: The Festival narrated by Fred Berman
Chapter 28: Under the Pyramids narrated by Jonathan Davis
Chapter 29: The Shunned House narrated by Robert Fass
Chapter 30: The Horror at Red Hook narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 31: He narrated by Marc Vietor
Chapter 32: Cool Air narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
Chapter 33: The Call of Cthulhu narrated by Matt Godfrey
Chapter 34: The Silver Key narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 35: Pickman’s Model narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 36: The Strange High House in the Mist narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 37: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 38: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 39: The Colour Out of Space narrated by Gregory Connors
Chapter 40: History of the Necronomicon narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 41: The Dunwich Horror narrated by Marc Vietor
Chapter 42: The Whisperer in Darkness narrated by Kevin Pariseau
Chapter 43: At the Mountains of Madness narrated by Scott Brick
Chapter 44: The Shadow over Innsmouth narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 45: The Dreams in the Witch House narrated by Dan Bittner
Chapter 46: The Thing on the Doorstep narrated by Jason Culp
Chapter 47: The Shadow Out of Time narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 48: The Haunter of the Dark narrated by Neil Hellegers
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I love stream of consciousness novels and this is arguably one of the first modern examples. Virginia Woolf’s prose is so beautiful I don’t really care about the story, but that’s interesting too. This one s a classic for a reason.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.
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