Genre: Classic

Review: Cranford

Review: Cranford

Cranford is a small town which is high in the population of female.  In the first section of the book, every male who enters the town drops like flies making it feel jinxed or like an old-fashioned sorority. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel is a sequence of short stories that all intertwine.  I’m typically not a short […]

Posted June 24, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 12 Comments
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Book Review: Sense and Sensibility

Book Review: Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is a novel of the Dashwoods. Mrs. Dashwood, a silly women focused on acquiring a comfortable fortune and abode along with marrying off her daughters well.  Elinor, a very sensible girl who always does the logical or right thing. Marianne who unlike her sister follows her heart and lives in the moment.  […]

Posted June 9, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 12 Comments
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Book Review: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Book Review: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Until one night when an unannounced stranger comes to Rosamond Vivian’s island, stealing her heart and whisking her away from her home. Rosamond and her now husband Philip Tempest, live a peaceful and happy first year until a mysterious lady appears at their doorstep divulging some unknown information about Phillip which turns Rosamond’s heart cold […]

Posted June 3, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 10 Comments
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Review I finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte last night and find it very appropriate that it was during a tornado watch as that describes this novel very well.   A tornado of disastrous events circles this novel, involving, gambling and alcoholism, violence, death and an overall conniving plot.  None of the characters had any redeeming […]

Posted May 1, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 6 Comments
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Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

Review The title or “catch phrase” really says it all, “A Civilization Gone with the Wind”.  Or, Scarlett O’Hara is the epitome of a young southern girl, pretty, vivacious and naive to the world around her.  All that changes when the civil war begins throwing away all that she once held dear. Katie Scarlett O’Hara, […]

Posted April 17, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 18 Comments
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Quick Impressions I enjoyed The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton but had a hard time feeling anything for the characters.  Both Archer’s and Ellen Olenska’s disappointments where their undoing.  The pair had no one to blame but themselves.  Although both did the honorable thing in the end.  To be honest, I only was concerned […]

Posted March 4, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 3 Comments
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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczk

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczk

First Impressions I went into The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczk knowing the identity of That damned elusive Pimpernel.  While it was no surprise I was still kept on the edge of my seat.  Impressions While Reading Baroness Orczk’s novel is at once a tale of espionage,suspense, action and even a little romance.  At first […]

Posted January 18, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments
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