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      • 1 Star/Did Not Finish1 Star reads and books I didn’t finish. I use this for books I couldn’t finish. If I finished a book, it meant it was passable at least so deserves an extra star! It is very rare that I need to do this, I’m good at knowing my own taste. Usually if  a book got this rating I’d made a miscalculation when I picked it up! I have a whole post about how I rate books and my reading preferences.
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Literary Classic

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White Noise by Don DeLillo 3/5 stars Clever and often very funny satire. I enjoyed the absurd (and yet believable) elements, and the characters are interesting... but I found the lack of direction in the plot to be a slog.

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Posted in3 Stars, Review & AnalysisFebruary 28, 2026
⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Stars - A biting and often funny satire, but I wanted to enjoy this more than I actually did.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 3.5 stars I didn’t love this as much re-reading it as an adult (on audio) as I did the first time as a teenager! Rochester sucks. The “romance” is creepy, and very convenient plot developments lost me towards the end.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Posted in3 StarsMarch 15, 2025
I didn’t love this re-reading it as an adult (on audio) as I did the first time as a teenager! ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Stars
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 3.5/5 stars I appreciate the literary merits, but the narrator was a frustrating perspective. Overall too gloomy, and nobody to root for!

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Posted in3 Stars, Book ReviewsFebruary 29, 2024
An understandable Classic but just not in a flavour that I enjoy! - 👻👻👻 3.5/5 Dead Wives
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. 3/5 stars Wildly frustrating, melodramatic, and unlikeable characters! I was so sick of everyone! The secondhand first person perspective is also too stagey for me.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Posted in3 Stars, BooksFebruary 10, 2024
Apparently, I had no idea what this book was actually about! A brutal, melodramatic and surprisingly petty revenge plot - 👊👊👊 3/5 Blows To The Head
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Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. 3/5 stars. Genre: Classics, Family Saga, Historical Positives: + Masterfully written with sharp characters. + Niave, unreliable narrator reveals in what she observes but fails to understand. + Darkly Funny. + Captures the dying class of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Negatives: - The reader is always held at arms length and any sympathy for Aroon is short lived. - Became rather miserable reading after a while!

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Posted in3 Stars, Book ReviewsNovember 30, 2023
Well written but miserable family saga with a naïve unreliable narrator - ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Stars
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler 4/5 Book Review

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Posted in4 Stars, Book ReviewsMay 19, 2023
Brilliant use of time travel as a literary device to explore the brutality of the antebellum Maryland. A true classic! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5
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