The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Other Side of the Bridge is Mary Lawson’s second published novel, and it made me want to read her first, called Crow Lake. That’s a fair compliment. It was the characters in The Other Side of the Bridge that made the book. The way the characters interacted and the author’s insight into their motivations [...]
Exposure by Mal Peet
Wow! Carnegie Medal winner Mal Peet has written a different book about fame, much more sophisticated than Claim to Fame (see below). Inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello, this novel is focused, not so much on jealousy, but on the perils and tragedies of celebrity. Otello is a soccer star, a black man who’s just signed a [...]
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
I decided to go ahead and join the Books of the Century Challenge since I read three books from the first year of the century, 1900, while I was reading during Lent. Sister Carrie was published in 1900, but it wasn’t a best seller. In fact it almost didn’t get published at all. The novel [...]
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
I discovered Nevil Shute when I was reading books about and set in Australia a couple of years ago. Shute’s A Town Called Alice is justly well-known as an example of Australian flavor. I also read the most famous of Shute’s books, the apocalyptic On the Beach, which gives a chilling picture of the world [...]
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
A coterie of Anglican nuns comes to a remote Himalayan village to establish a convent, school, and hospital fro the improvement and benefit of the natives. Instead of making any impression at all on the villagers, the nuns themselves are changed and brought to confront their deepest fears, desires, and inadequacies. Simple enough to summarize, [...]
Vittoria Cottage by D.E. Stevenson
I’ve had several reading bloggers recommend the books of author D.E. Stevenson, an author I’d never heard of until I began reading blog reviews. So, when I was at the library the other day and happened upon a shelf of books by Ms. Stevenson, I decided to try one out. (Note: this is how publicity-via-blog [...]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Everybody and his dog has already read this one and reviewed it, but WOW! The Help is a really, really good book. In fact, dare I say it comes close to To Kill a Mockingbird territory. Not quite, but close. The story is told from the point of view of three characters: Skeeter is a [...]
La reine Margot, or Margeurite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
On Monday, the 18th of August, 1572, there was a splendid festival at the Louvre. The court was celebrating the marriage of Madame Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Henry II and sister of KIng Charles IX, with Henry de Bourbon, King of Navarre. So this novel is Dumas’ fictional version of the life and times [...]
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
I love Josephine Tey’s mystery novels. I’m especially fond of Daughter of Time, her solution to the mystery of who killed the Princes in the Tower (not Richard III, according to Tey’s detective work). The novel, featuring Inspector Alan Grant practicing his detecting skills from a hospital bed, is a tour de force, a combination [...]
Sunday Salon: Books Read in February/March, 2010
Young Adult Fiction: The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Semicolon review here. How To Say Goodbye In Robot by Natalie Standiford. Quite odd, but sort of fun. This one made the Cybils YA fiction shortlist. If you read it, expect something totally different, like late night conspiracy-theory UFO radio. Review by Melissa at Book Nut. [...]
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