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(It's Greta Garbo in the pic, not me) I read a lot of cozies because I want to write one. I like history and historicals. Gardening... Will try to get better at just mention what I liked about a book and not complain too much.
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Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Twins: A Novel: 1 star
![Meg Cabot: Queen of Babble (Queen of Babble Series, Book 1) (2006, William Morrow)](/images/covers/6988ae46-232a-405e-9f10-0b64e15a6539.jpeg)
Queen of Babble (Queen of Babble Series, Book 1) by Meg Cabot (Queen of Babble Series)
What's an American girl with a big mouth, but an equally big heart, to do?
Lizzie Nichols has a problem, …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Snabba cash: 1 star
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Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (a Classics Novel by Emily Brontë) (2022, Independently Published)
Wuthering Heights (a Classics Novel by Emily Brontë) by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: 4 stars
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Reading Like a Writer: 3 stars
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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Burlesque and the art of the Teese: 4 stars
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated About a Boy: 1 star
![Nick Hornby: About a Boy (2004, Penguin Books Ltd)](/images/covers/e018de22-cf6b-4fbc-85b8-a77cc84e2f40.jpeg)
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: 2 stars
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
A journalist and his lawyer head to las Vegas in the hopes of finding The American Dream. Instead they trip …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: 3 stars
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Bridget Jones: 1 star
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Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
The Edge of Reason is the sequel to Helen Fielding's number one best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary. It has been turned …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated American Psycho: 2 stars
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated The rules of attraction: 2 stars
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The rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
First Sentence: “And it’s a story that might bore you, but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because …
Pallas // Pick Poppies rated Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 3 stars
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Pottter’s dreams. Why else would …