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Book Reviews!

Currently Reading

A Very Murderous Christmas – Cecily Gayford

Murder on the Links – Agatha Christie

Fiction

The Musterious Affair at Styles (#1 Hercule Poirot) – Agatha Christie (3.5/5 Stars)

More Horowitz Horror: More Stories You’ll Wish You Never Read – Anthony Horowitz (3/5 Stars)

Midnight Library – Matt Haig (3.5/5 Stars)

Maisie Dobbs (#1 Maisie Dobbs Series) – Jacqueline Winspear (2/5 stars)

A Test of Wills (#1 Inspector Ian Rutledge Series) – Charles Todd (3.5/5 Stars)

Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (4/5 Stars)

Treacherous is the Night (#2 Verity Kent Series) – Anna Lee Huber (1.5/5 stars)

Penny for your Secret (#3 Verity Kent Series) – Anna Lee Huber (2.5/5 Stars)

This Side of Murder (#1 Verity Kent Series) – Anna Lee Huber (3/5 Stars)

The Pisces – Melissa Broder (0.5/5 stars)

The Advocate’s Devil (#1 Chiang/d’Almeida Series) – Walter Woon (5/5 Stars)

Dark Tales – Shirley Jackson (5/5 stars)

Weather – Jenny Offill (3/5 Stars)

Heartburn – Nora Ephron (0.5/5 stars)

Horowitz Horror: Stories You’ll Wish You Never Read – Anthony Horowitz (4.5/5 Stars)

The Scholar & the Dragon – Stella Kon (5/5 Stars)

Olive – Emma Gannon (0.5/5 stars)

Non-fiction

How to write fiction: A Guardian masterclass (Guardian Shorts) – Geoff Dyer (3.5/5 Stars)

Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking – Martin N. Seif & Sally M. Winston (4.5/5 Stars)

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle – Mark Wolynn (4.5/5 Stars)

The Child in You: The Breakthrough Method for Bringing Out Your Authentic Self – Stefanie Stahl (5/5 Stars)

To-read list

Entire Agatha Christie series

Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert (5/5 Stars)

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times – Katherine May

Skip the Line – James Altucher

Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins

Unwinding Anxiety – Judson Brewer

Burnout – Emily Nagowski

By Then & Then Some – Lauren Bacall

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations – Peter Evans

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales – Oliver Sacks