Karabou Review

  Before beginning this review in earnest, it should be noted that I have never read  Jane Eyre . I watched part of one of the film adaptions, which came recommended as a decent historical romance film. I ceased my viewing experience, however, upon the reveal of the woman in the attic. At that point my perception of the film shifted from adequate-period-romance film, to ' Oh, it's a horror movie; I somehow missed that. ' And that's precisely when my interest in this book bloomed. Rating: 3.75/5 Buy Wide Sargasso Sea Here . Cover Blurb:  " Wide Sargasso Sea , a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys' return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With  Wide Sargasso Sea ,   her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction's most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre . This mes...

  Returning so many months later to review this book has been a strange experience. By the time I finished All the Light We Cannot See  by Anthony Doerr, I found that I needed to sit with it for a while—let it steep—before I could discuss it in any meaningful way. Anyway, I read  All the Light We Cannot See  in February, 2021, and my period of processing has finally reached an end (This review was written on December 12, 2021. This revision was completed on April 24, 2023.).  Rating:   4.5/5 Buy All the Light We Cannot See . Blurb from goodreads: "Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows ...