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THE ROSE TATTOO, A PLAY BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)

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In this post, I shall review The Rose Tattoo , a play by Tennessee  Williams . It's one of his lesser known plays, but it is not lesser in any other way. There's also a movie version I haven't watched and therefore cannot comment on. I haven't actually seen this play on stage, but I have imagined it. I've also read it a number of times. Some say you cannot understand a play without seeing it on stage, but I think it depends on the play. Some plays are very readable. All    Tennessee  Williams's  plays are that way for me. When I read them, I both see and feel them.  I actually wrote this review years ago. You could say it's one of those books that have stayed with me and that I remember fondly.  It's been sitting in my blog archives , waiting for the right moment to be presented to my readers. I  think I have found a suitable outfit to publish this book review with.  I'm shopping my closet once again. I'm wearing a vintage red  ...

THE LADY OF THE LAKE, A NOVEL BY A. SAPKOWSKI, WITCHER BOOK #7 (REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)

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Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! In this post, I shall review The Lady of the Lake , the eight book and the fifth novel in the Witcher series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Published in 1999,  The Lady of the Lake   is a direct sequel to The Tower of Swallow . Chronologically,   The Lady of the Lake  is the last novel in the Witcher series.  It ends the Witcher saga, and wraps up the story in a linear (albeit unconventional) way. The ending of this novel is ambiguous, but I actually enjoyed it. While it is true that  The Lady of the Lake   novel ends the Witcher saga, two new novels in the Witcher Universe followed its   publication, both of its prequels that do not continue the story, but rather take place years before the 'final novel'. While two new Witcher novels have been published, Andrzej Sapkowski was still true to his word that the story of Geralt and Yen ends here. However, since this review was published there's ha...