Rating 4.0 – 5.0
Books rated 4.0 and higher
(sorted by title)
Reading World Tour
Challenge:
Read a book from every country
Original Fiction
“Fairy Tales”
by E.F. Sunland
Review: The Drowned World
20 Books of Summer: Book 5 J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Concrete Island are both creepily brilliant, but The Drowned World doesn’t meet their high bar. The writing is spectacular, but the characters are too flat for my taste. They’re buried under so much allegory that they have…
Review: Those Who Walk Away
20 Books of Summer 2018: Book 4 After I read The Talented Mr. Ripley, I went to my favorite used bookshop in search of more books by Patricia Highsmith. They had two: The Two Faces of January and Those Who Walk Away. It was hard to…
Review: The Eternal Wonder
Reasons Not To Read This Book: 1) published under questionable circumstances, and 2) it’s not very good.