Rating: 🦴🦴🦴🦴 First Response: This book isn't really about Martha. It's about her story . It's a story about the story of Martha. One Sentence Summary: Ambrose Tree goes to Drogo Hall at the request of his uncle, and there hears the story of "Cripplegate Giant" Harry Peake, and his daughter Martha. Tell Me More: This book wasn't as affecting as yesterday's Asylum , which is why it's getting 4 'stars' instead of 5. It was still beautifully written, but rather heady-- after

I listened to the audiobook read by Sir Ian McKellen. It was pretty good. 😊 Rating: 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨 First Response: I wanted a haunted asylum and got a haunted soul instead. One Sentence Summary: Stella Raphael decides to shake up her boring marriage by having an affair with one of the patients at the MAXIMUM SECURITY ASYLUM FOR THE CRIMINALLY INSANE where her husband works. Tell Me More: This book has been on my TBR list forever. I think I first looked it up back in 2014-2015-i

My version didn't have the white text present on this cover, but I haven't for the life of me been able to find my cover anywhere. Rating: 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️ First Response: I actually like this one. This is my second Faulkner, and while I wasn’t wild about the first one, this one was pretty good. One Sentence Summary: The Compson family remembers and rebels over Easter weekend in 1928. Tell Me More: I’ve only read one other Faulkner novel ( As I Lay Dying ),

The cover is beautiful, but I didn't love the book... Rating: 📿📿 Initial Response: This book wants to be several things, and in the end doesn't do any of them particularly well. One Sentence Summary: An enslaved young woman in antebellum Alabama comes to terms with her enslaved existence while completing tasks for her sister's ghost. Tell Me More: For most of this book, I wavered between 3 and 4 'stars,' but by the time I got to the end, I decided that the issues I thought