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…
February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins | Book Review
February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2005 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon February House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take…
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956, edited by Peter K. Steinberg | Book Review
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1: 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath, Peter K. Steinberg Genres: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2017 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon.…
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey | Book Review
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Genres: Memoir Original Publication Date: 1948 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Cheaper by the dozen? What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father—a famous efficiency expert—who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen. Cheaper by the Dozen Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into numerous films over the years — including a…
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…
