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Mel Anderson rated The Madman's Library: 3 stars
Mel Anderson rated Gormenghast: 5 stars
Mel Anderson rated Edgar Allan Poe: 3 stars
Mel Anderson rated Loving: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Never Let Me Go: 4 stars
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. …
Mel Anderson rated The Fabric of Civilization: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Women of the Left Bank: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Adams: An American Dynasty: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated Cult of the Saints: 4 stars
Mel Anderson rated The rival queens: 4 stars
The rival queens by Nancy Bazelon Goldstone
Goldstone documents the turbulent mother-daughter relationship between Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois to explore the court politics, assassinations, …
Mel Anderson rated Pandora's Jar: 3 stars
Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes
The tellers of Greek myths--historically men--have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are …
Mel Anderson rated The Remains of the Day: 5 stars
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take …
Mel Anderson rated On paper: 4 stars
On paper by Nicholas A. Basbanes
A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on …