Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (1996) | Book Review
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Genres: British Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 1996 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Bridget Jones’s Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanently doomed quest for self-improvement. Bridget resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation, Bridget Jones’s Diary has touched a raw nerve…
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith | Book Review
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith Genres: American Literature, Fiction Original Publication Date: 1943 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one,…
Heronfield by Dorothy Balchin (2012) | Book Review
Heronfield by Dorinda Balchin Genres: British Literature, Fiction, History Original Publication Date: 2012 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Heronfield. Amidst the bombs and bullets, the fear and confusion, it is sometimes the battles within our hearts that leave the deepest scars. Experience a sweeping saga set in war-torn Europe during the desperate years of the Second World War. At its heart is a cast of characters who draw us into their lives from the defeat of Dunkirk to the final victory: Tony, a young man barely in his twenties who experiences the horror of Britain’s first defeat and offers his unique…
Frost In May by Antonia White | Book Review
Frost in May by Antonia White Genres: British Literature, Fiction, Religion Original Publication Date: Originally published in 1933. Republished by Virago Books in 1978. Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon In Frost in May, Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes. Convent life is perfectly captured – the smell of…
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin | Book Review
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin Genres: Fiction, Horror, American Literature Original Publication Date: 1972 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town’s idyllic facade lies a terrible secret — a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in…
