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(SPOILERS) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Review
Book Synopsis: Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 213 min read
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - Review
Book Synopsis: A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody."...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 153 min read
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The Screwtape Letters (Annotated Edition) by C. S. Lewis - Review
Book Synopsis: A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 63 min read
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Review
Book Synopsis: A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December...
Lyra Thompson
Dec 12, 20242 min read
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Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve - Review
Book Synopsis: MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the creators of the...
Lyra Thompson
Jan 21, 20243 min read
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Emma by Jane Austen - Review
Synopsis: Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma...
Lyra Thompson
Oct 1, 20233 min read
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Review
Book Synopsis: Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English...
Lyra Thompson
Jun 1, 20234 min read
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Review
About the Book: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel...
Lyra Thompson
May 9, 20233 min read
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Little Women Movies: 1994 VS 2019 Comparison
I've seen the Little Women movie adaptation three times now. I first watched in back in 2021 before I read the book and really enjoyed...
Lyra Thompson
May 6, 20234 min read
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(SPOILERS) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Review
Book Synopsis: Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 14, 20224 min read
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Review
Book Synopsis: In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that...
Lyra Thompson
Mar 3, 20212 min read
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - Review
3.5/5 stars. This book was required reading for my English class. It was super short and I probably could've completed it way faster if I...
Lyra Thompson
Nov 2, 20202 min read
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