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Roundup, October 2016

October 31, 2016 by Drew

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn 3 out of 5 The Short Version: A young woman on the margins, working as a fraudulent psychic, lands a gig investigating a creepy house and creepy child for another woman. What ensues is a classic gothic battle for sanity. The Review: Flynn’s voice is unmistakeable and it was great to hear it again, seeing as it’s been awhile since Gone Girl and we’re likely to have to wait a while longer yet for her next […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry • Tags: A Head Full of Ghosts, A Thousand Mornings, A Visit to October Country, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Contagion, Dana I. Wolff, Disease, Exorcism, Fiction, Gillian Flynn, Heidi Julavits, Horror, Literature, Mary Oliver, Metafiction, Mikhail Bulgakov, North Brother Island, Novella, Paul Tremblay, Peace, Poetry, Psychics, Religion, Review Roundup, Reviews, Roundup, Russia, Speculative, Stalin, The Devil, The Grownup, The Master and Margarita, The Prisoner of Hell Gate, The Vanishers, Thriller, Typhoid Mary

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The Uses of Enchantment

October 27, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: When she was 17, Mary Veal disappeared for several weeks. The story she spins upon her return baffles psychologists and her family – and it’s not until her mother’s death many years later that the truth begins to come out about what really happened while she was gone. The Review: Some books are November books, not October books. It’s an easy enough mistake to make, but you know them the minute you start them. There’s something a little […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Heidi Julavits, Literature, Reviews, The Uses of Enchantment, Witches

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