Monthly Review: February 2010
Books Read: Read-a-Longs Gone with the Wind Currently Reading: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Save Save
Month: February 2010
Old Classics Are New Again
Penguin Books with the help of designer Coralie Bickford-Smith are sprucing up literature’s great works, “ditching their stuffy dust jackets for smartly embossed canvas covers. Perfect for replacing well-thumbed favorites or creating a bookshelf piece de resistance”. I love me a good classic, and these covers are so beautiful they are something to stand back […]
It’s Monday What Are You Reading?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books in which readers share what they have read, are currently reading and what’s next on the tbr. Read No Angels by Penny Vincenzi Currently Reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Up Next Trickster’s […]
No Angel by Penny Vincenzi
Impressions While Reading No Angel by Penny Vincenzi is a a page turner and what I felt to be an accurate account of that time of history. Penny Vincenzi references the woman’s suffrage movement, medicine, social affairs and the after effects of war. There are very few cliff-hanger at the end of No Angel as most […]
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
First Impressions I actually read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold several years ago. At first, I was very hesitant because of the subject matter. Do I really want to read about a 14-year-old getting raped and murdered? I was only a few years older than Susie at the time. I ended up loving it. […]