Continuing this year’s apparent comfort reading theme, when I saw this book come up on the Prime Firsts list, I grabbed it. It was as pure escapist fun as the description implied. Mia is a famous British actress who’s just completed a film with her husband. Just in time for the publicity junket, she finds […]
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Carrie McClelland has had success writing historical fiction – she likes to pick a time, place or event, and live for a time wherever that occurred to immerse herself in the world of her story. Her latest idea is set in the French Court, but is about the Scottish Stewart kings, when they were exiled
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Theo and his mother were at the Met (well, I can’t remember if it was really called the Met in the book, but it was the Met) because Theo was suspended from school. On the way back from a meeting all about him, she decided to stop at the museum because they had a painting
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Annika was found by Sigrid and Ellie in a church in the mountains while the two were on their annual weekend away from their job as maid and cook for three professors in Vienna. A note asked to take the baby to the nuns in Vienna. But the nuns were under quarantine, and by the
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Fool tells the story of King Lear from the point of view of his Fool. (A character that does exist in the play – one of the things I found myself looking up to verify if I was remembering things correctly. I believe I last read King Lear in 1997 or 1998.) Moore’s decided to
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Read for the RIP XI Reading Challenge. Edie and Elspeth were inseparable twins, but something tore them apart. Edie moved to America, while Elspeth stayed in London. Edie ended up having twins of her own – Julia and Valentina. And when Elspeth dies, it’s Julia and Valentina she leaves her flat to – with the
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Another Kindle sale book here – but I might have paid more for it had I known about it earlier. The Lizzie Bennett Diaries are a fantastic web series that adapted Pride and Prejudice into the modern day. Lizzie’s a communications grad student doing a web series as a project, and Darcy is
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The main thing I’m taking away from this trio of books (see here for the other) is that Edward Gorey thought a lot about the alphabet. There are so many variations of alphabet lists in these books. He’s also morbid. Which I already knew, but got extra confirmation reading these. I
Amphigorey Too and Amiphigorey Again – Edward Gorey Read More »
This book is a collection of shorter works that Gorey had done over the years – if you like his work (which is slightly macabre, and definitely all kinds of wrong), it’s worth a read. There are a couple different alphabet stories that are completely not meant for children, but are so much fun to
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You know, I really liked Possession, and several of Byatt’s fairy tale based short story books are wonderful. I can’t even really tell you what these stories were about – they were so high literary I was just plowing through so I could get to the end. I’m really not sure why I
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