The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory | Book Review
The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory Genres: Animals, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 1988 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon ‘Twas the night before Christmas when a bedraggled white feline entered the heart — and home — of Cleveland Amory. To say it is a friendly takeover is an understatement. For the cat who came for Christmas is clearly of the Independent Type, and Cleveland Amory, cranky or not, is a pushover where animals are concerned. Cleveland Amory’s The Cat Who Came For Christmas is the delightful holiday tale of Amory and his beloved feline, Polar Bear. It was Christmas Eve 1977…
Top 10 Books on My Fall 2023 Reading List
Books I Want To Read This Fall Fall 2023 Reading List Stories of Breece D’J Pancake Breece Pancake was a very promising young writer who was already publishing short stoires in The Atlantic Monthly when he committed suicide at the age of 26. Breece D’J Pancake Is the Greatest Author You’ve Never Heard Of The story collection The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake was published after his death, which included some stories he had already published and several previously unpublished stories. The Last Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family by Laura Schenone Laura Schenone writes about finding her great-grandmother’s recipe for ravioli. A Walker in the…
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki | Book Review
Three Summers (originally The Straw Hats) by Margarita Liberaki, Translation by Karen Van Dyck Genres: Fiction, Greek Literature Original Publication Date: Originally published in Greece in 1946 as The Straw Hats Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but distant Infanta; and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Karen Van Dyck’s…
Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman (1967) | Book Review
Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman Genres: Fiction Original Publication Date: 1967 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Goodreads, Amazon Diary of a Mad Housewife is a classic of women’s fiction that gave a wry voice to the nascent feminist stirrings of the 1960s and helped incite a revolution in the consciousness of a generation. When Bettina Balser begins to suspect that she is going mad, she starts a secret diary as a form of therapy. Through her observations of herself and those around her, Bettina seeks meaning in her exceedingly dreary life. Diary Of A Mad Housewife Bettina Balser is thirty-six years old. She…
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Book Review
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Genres: American Literature, Fiction, Illness Original Publication Date: 1963 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon In The Bell Jar, a vulnerable young woman wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath’s own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman’s aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously… a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning…
