Rating: WORTHY! This was a beautifully-written novel about two gay men, set in the Regency period, which despite its 300-some page len...

Rating: WARTY! This started out in first person which is irritating to me at best, but it started chapter one, set in 1941, and had a ...

Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a new translation of Beowulf - arguably the mos...

Rating: WARTY! This is yet another diversion into the classics. I find the author's name amusing for some reason. In conjunction...

Rating: WORTHY! Finally, a classic that I enjoyed! Published only one year before the author died, the 1872 novella Carmilla is an e...

Rating: WORTHY! Read delightfully by Mary Jane Wells, this was a truly sweet story that broke several of my rules and still kept my in...

Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This author is a feminist writer who has several non-fic...

Rating: WARTY! In another unoriginal, coat-tail riding episode, "Rose has dedicated her life to celebrating the legacy of her fav...

Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I made it only a quarter of the way through this because...

Rating: WARTY! I could not get into this novel at all. It bored me from the start. Usually I have no interest in historical novels t...

Rating: WARTY! Taking place a century after fire burned down the library at Alexandria, this story revolves around two protagonists: a...

Rating: WARTY! First published in a single novel in 1848, I listened to this - yet another of my forlorn attempts at the classics - as...

Rating: WARTY! Set in the 1664 London of King Charles the second, not long after the British interregnum which came after Charles first...

Rating: WARTY! You know times have changed significantly when you read in an older novel (this was published in 1878), "...I don&#...

Rating: WORTHY! This novel, first published in 1934, is the second full-length book from Wodehouse about Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. I&...

Rating: WARTY! This was an ebook about this married guy, Brett, who is terrified of flying, yet he's supposed to fly to LA on 9/11 ...

Rating: WARTY! Purportedly based on the real life of Alphonsine Rose Plessis, a French courtesan and popular mistress who died at the a...

Rating: WARTY! This had sounded good from the description, but it sounded less good when I realized it was merely a prologue to a trilo...

Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. For a biography with this title, this books spends a lot o...

Rating: WORTHY! This was an intriguing biography of two people who intersected when one painted the portrait of the other, and the port...