I hope that somehow this proximity to Jane’s life will help me understand my own. This was the perfect nonfiction book to cap the 250th celebration of Jane Austen's birth and my re-reading of her various books, short stories and juvenilia. The Premise Lori Smith is at a painful and difficult time in her life. …
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Slaves of Solitude, Patrick Hamilton (1947)
“She was not, she saw, really cut out for small-town, boarding-house life during a war.” I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I am so glad to have participated in the #1947Club that introduced me to an author I probably would not have known about otherwise. The book takes place during World War II and reveals …
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The Bookman’s Tale, Charlie Lovett (2013)
When I read a book I want to be affected in some way, to think differently, maybe to investigate a part of the story that captivated me. At the very least, I want something to have shifted. Charlie Lovett’s The Bookman’s Tale, satisfied all of the above, with intriguing subject matter and his ability to …
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