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By: The Secret History | Necromancy Never Pays

The Secret History | Necromancy Never Pays — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 23:57:10 +0000

[…] was surprised to find myself so cross because, in addition to Eleanor, Ana and Jenny really like this book. Maybe I read it too long after college—it’s about college kids, and how […]

By: Review: Native Son « The Literary Omnivore

Review: Native Son « The Literary Omnivore — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:01:08 +0000

[…] I found myself invested in his fate. (It certainly helps that there’s no tension like “trying to cover up a murder” tension.) The arc of Native Son is not one of redemption, but of self-actualization. In class, […]

By: Elinor Lipman: The Continuing Saga « Jenny's Books

Elinor Lipman: The Continuing Saga « Jenny's Books — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:02:27 +0000

[…] feature for a book to have, and I am saying that as a girl who loves the sort of ending like The Secret History has, where it’s utterly grim and also a little ambiguous and strange. I love that sort of […]

By: Much Madness is Divinest Sense » Blog Archive » The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:51:35 +0000

[…] has a great review of this book (in fact, it was her review that put the book on my radar). She […]

By: Review: The White Devil, Justin Evans « Jenny's Books

Review: The White Devil, Justin Evans « Jenny's Books — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:10:07 +0000

[…] is never fair to finish up a book you liked a lot/loved (in this case, The Secret History — despite my best intentions of early bed, I stayed up past until midnight to finish it this […]

By: The Secret History by Donna Tartt | A Good Stopping Point

The Secret History by Donna Tartt | A Good Stopping Point — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:43:14 +0000

[…] Jenny’s Books – “The adjective I would use for this book, and please appreciate that this is a high compliment from me, is elegant. Tartt has a trick of having her characters reveal things casually that shock the narrator and the reader, and at the same time seem perfectly plausible, indeed inevitable.” […]

By: Rereading « Jenny's Books

Rereading « Jenny's Books — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:04:42 +0000

[…] though, is the inescapable fact that I am rereading The Secret History for the fourth time since July 2010, and dammit, it’s holding up! My resentment of life for getting in the way of my reading The […]

By: Wrapping up 2010 « Jenny's Books

Wrapping up 2010 « Jenny's Books — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:31:17 +0000

[…] no-brainer answer to this would be Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, which gripped me as much or more as it did the first time around (in 2005), and I read it twice in […]

By: _lethe_

_lethe_ — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:10:42 +0000

In reply to Jenny. The Charioteer is great! And your comments make me want to reread it, like, now! :-D

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:22:14 +0000

In reply to _lethe_.

Hi! Thanks for stopping by!

Yeah, I have wondered if the problem I had with The Little Friend was expecting it to be just like The Secret History. I’ll probably try it again sometime soon, and maybe I will like it better this time, when my expectations are very low. :p

You liked The Charioteer? Really? Yaaaaaay! Isn’t it good? It’s so full of subtext and awesomeness! 😀