This is a very short, good story - if you watched the movie it only begins on the actual day of the assassination & with none of the elements that got the movie its R rating. I should read the original Chinese.
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Solsetur reviewed Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang
In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become …
5 stars
Solsetur rated Mom & me & mom: 4 stars
Mom & me & mom by Maya Angelou
In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she …
Solsetur rated The Island of Doctor Moreau (Pocket Penguins): 3 stars
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Pocket Penguins) by H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866–1946). The text …
Solsetur reviewed More Than a Mistress by Mary Balogh
More Than A Mistress
In her most captivating novel to date, Mary Balogh, the …
4 stars
Sometimes one just needs to read fluff. Better written than most of its genre, with a realistic plot.
Solsetur rated Old Nurse's Story: 3 stars
Solsetur rated White Teeth: 2 stars
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two …
Solsetur rated Belle: the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice: 5 stars
Paula Byrne: Belle (2014)
Belle: the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne
The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to …
Solsetur rated Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back: 4 stars
Neil Gaiman, Full Cast, Adrian Lester, Bernard Cribbins, Don Warrington, Mitch Benn, Paterson Joseph, Samanta Beart: Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back (AudiobookFormat, BBC Audio, coosolvo)
Neil Gaiman's How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman, Full Cast, Adrian Lester, and 5 others
Solsetur rated All the Light We Cannot See: 4 stars
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and …
Solsetur reviewed The nightingale Large Print by Kristin Hannah
Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives …
5 stars
I recommend that everyone read this book. It is a reminder of the atrocities humans are capable of, and the hardship, compromise (loss) and strength required to survive. But what is "surviving"?
I cannot recall any other book I've read recently which was so rewarding and draining at the same time.
Solsetur rated The Sundial: 5 stars
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar …
Solsetur rated Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances: 4 stars
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a …
Solsetur rated Lady Susan: 5 stars
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her …
"The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories [presents]Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to …
5 stars
My god I finally finished this book. Loved it, At the Mountains of Madness is too long (and draggy); absolutely loved The Thing on the Doorstep, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Tomb.