A Bit of Whimsy
Found this old photo and paired it with Yeats’ words to create this bit of whimsy.
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Life According to Literature (2021)
Saw this on Paula Light’s website, My Book Life, and thought I’d give it a try. Original challenge is linked here. (THE RULES: Using only books you have read during the last year (2021), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. These answers don’t have to be true, but they just need […]
Read More“Next Year in Havana”: Review
In 1958, Cuba is experiencing political unrest. The Perez sisters, sheltered from the uprising by their social standing, look for opportunities to sneak out of the house. During one of these outings, nineteen-year-old Elisa meets a man who steals her heart. He is a revolutionary. Their forbidden romance heats up as the plots against the […]
Read More“The Distant Hours”: a review
The letter that arrives decades after it is post-marked is the first indication that Edie’s mother has been keeping secrets. Although her mother is not sharing any information, Edie is intrigued enough to investigate on her own. She finds herself visiting a decaying castle, where she encounters the Blythe sisters, and the mystery deepens. Fluctuating […]
Read More“A Land More Kind Than Home”: Review
Some books hook you right from the beginning and won’t let you go until you’ve drained every last word out of them. A Land More Kind Than Home is such a novel. Told through the perspective of three narrators, Wiley Cash’s tale of fanaticism in the south is a coming of age story, a murder […]
Read More“Apprenticed to Venus”: a Review
Subtitled My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin, Apprenticed to Venus is the part memoir, part novel of Tristine Rainier, who mentored under the famous diarist. Although I have been inspired by Nin’s words, I have known very little about her, so I was eager to read this book. Rainier, on an errand from her artist aunt, encounters […]
Read More“Before We Were Yours”: A Review
Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate introduces the shameful story of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, an organization run by Georgia Tann, a woman who made money by abducting poor children from their homes and selling them into adoption. Wingate’s novel imagines what life would be like for siblings taken from their homes and […]
Read MoreThe Alice Network: a Worthy Read
Charlie’s cousin Rose has disappeared, and refusing to believe she is dead, Charlie sets out to retrace Rose’s steps. Her investigation brings her to the door of Eve Gardner, a cranky woman, with deformed hands, a clear drinking problem, and a luger. Together, with the help of a Scotsman, with a shady past, the three […]
Read More“The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir”: a review
It’s World War II, and the denizens of Chilbury are faced with the loss of their church choir as their men leave to fight for the cause. Enter Prim, an upbeat teacher, with a fresh outlook, who encourages the women to defy protocols and create their own chorus. Jennifer Ryan’s novel about the life of […]
Read More“Half of a Yellow Sun”: Review
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves an intricate tale, with well-developed characters and relationships, and just when the reader wonders where it is all headed, the unthinkable happens. “Half of a Yellow Sun” is not a symbol I would have recognized before reading Adichie’s work. Now I know that it is integral to the Biafran war, and […]
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One Woman's Quest II 