From the back cover: Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of THE END. The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate … [Read more...] about The End by Lemony Snicket: B-
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine: A-
From the back cover: Like most families, they had their secrets—and hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred. They had to fight it out behind closed curtains using every … [Read more...] about A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine: A-
The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh: B+
From the back cover: Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary—and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation was a complete success... Review: Wow, a Ngaio Marsh book … [Read more...] about The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh: B+
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart: C+
From the back cover: Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities? When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission … [Read more...] about The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart: C+
Bleach 4 by Tite Kubo: B
From the back cover: A new reality-show craze is sweeping the nation, garnering legions of screaming fans. But this program comes with a supernatural twist—the host, a media-savvy spiritualist, travels to local hotspots and performs exorcisms, live on national TV! Surly Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki has his doubts about this primetime prima donna, and his assumptions are about … [Read more...] about Bleach 4 by Tite Kubo: B