readingallnight.booklikes.com/post/1625971/the-price-of-salt-or-carol-the-book-vs-carol-the-movie
… of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt (aka Carol) and its movie adaptation?
Don’t want to reblog since it’s a review, but I thought you might be interested. (If you’re already following the reviewer, never mind.)
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ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1626142/bt-and-lillelara-did-you-see-this-review
This is middling Berkeley, not as problematic as The Wychford Poisoning Case or The Silk Stockings Murders, but OTOH also a fair way from the (mostly) enjoyable and intelligent writing that are The Poisoned Chocolates Case and Trial and Error. I rather like the setup — a body found by accident in a place where […]
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The Appointment with Agatha group’s January 2022 side read: my first book by Atwood Taylor (though I’d heard her name before) and almost certainly not my last one. I’m not entirely sold on the main investigator, Asey Mayo; he comes across as rather too mannered and the book might have benefitted if the first person […]
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Definitely the best book I read during the first week of the new year; the New Yorker pretty much nailed it when calling the book “warm, witty, imaginative” and adding “This is a rich and winning book.” I’d (finally) read Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God last year; having now read her autobiography, I recongnize […]
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