The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 37

Goodreads Blurb: The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand

After years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This was awesome, although Anakin does not come off well in it – who knew Darth Vader could be such a selfish jerk.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 36

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Goodreads Blurb: Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: There is a kind of magic that people don’t often associate with the word nowadays. Because it is not flashy, it does not involve men with long beards saying strange words in half-forgotten languages. It is a quiet, humble kind of magic. The kind that lets invalids walk and contrary girls smile You might call this magic common-sense … but I call it the Secret Garden.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 35

Doctor Aphra by Sarah Kuhn

Goodreads Blurb: Dr. Aphra teams up with Darth Vader himself in this audiobook original – an expanded adaptation of the critically acclaimed Marvel comics series, performed by a full cast.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Made me laugh harder than any other star wars book has done yet.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 34

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Goodreads Blurb: One of the most celebrated tales of all time, Around the World in 80 Days is part high-octane thriller, part fascinating fantasy travelogue. Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just 80 days, right down to the minute.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A book that has both aged terribly and was fair for its day. Excellent – I love books like that, the cognitive dissonance always wakes you up a bit. Yet the thing I found most shocking of all … not a hot air balloon in sight. And no, I’m not marking that as a spoiler, you should go in knowing that. Tv has lied to us.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 33

Monk’s Hood by Ellis Peters

Goodreads Blurb: After the violence of spring, when the civil war between Stephen and Maud swept through the town, Shrewsbury has enjoyed a quiet summer. The trouble begins when Gervase Bonel, rich lord of the manor, proposes to sign over all his property to the Abbey in return for food and lodging for the rest of his life.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Finally a Cadfael with a Welsh accent 💜💜💜

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 32

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Goodreads Blurb: Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I think my favourite thing about this book is that beyond Dorian’s wish/prayer we’re never given an exact explanation of how the picture came to be as it is. The point of the story is not to explain the world in which Dorian lives but to examine his soul.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 31

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Goodreads Blurb:The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Doesn’t really get interesting until near the end, and even then only for a short while.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 30

Ulysses by James Joyce

Goodreads Blurb:Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce’s 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called “a demonstration and summation of the entire movement.”

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I enjoyed the poetry in the prose, which is well for I could not find the sense in it.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 29

Brother Cadfael’s Penance by Allis Peters

Goodreads Blurb: While Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows–until now.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: I enjoyed how the mystery is almost an afterthought next to the politics of the realm, and Cadfael’s own personal worries. And it’s mostly resolved with … well he was a d*** so he deserved it.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 28

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Goodreads Blurb: Acclaimed by one reviewer to be the greatest novel ever written, the story of Mrs. Bennett’s search for husbands for her daughters is told with wit and charm.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Mr. Bennet is quite as ill mannered as his wife, and I don’t know why adaptions try to pretend otherwise. By the end of the book I really wanted to punch him in the face.

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