It was such a fun read with characters that reminded of some of my own family. I loved this novel so much and feel sure I’ll be picking it up again next Christmas! So that’s my reading month and I’m really happy to have got back to reading more regularly, now I just hope it...
Canne al Vento is about four sisters in the country who stay with their father and don’t marry, but one goes away, is sent away by the father because she is pregnant and is not married. And after 20 years a letter arrives from her son: the woman has died but he says he wants ...
to hasten, as in a hothouse, the process of transformation of the feudal mode of production into the capitalist mode, and to shorten the transition. Force is the midwife of every old society which is pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power… ...
(2003). Some aspects of the novel resemble the experience of her father’s side of the family. However, she soon returned to Native characters with such novels asThe Plague of Doves(2008), which centers on a young protagonist trying to understand the long-standing tension between her Native...
Characters felt a little two-dimensional, so it made for a quick read. However, if you’re at all familiar with the royal family’s history, and understand protocol, addressing royals/peerage, and the nicknames for things, this novel will grate a bit. I had to stop reading the Her ...
Pregnant with her third child, Boyle found herself with the burden of filling the many gaps in the collection left by contributions that were never submitted and contributions fundamentally out of keeping with the design and spirit of the anthology, which aimed to portray the year 1934 ...
the American lieutenant Frederic Henry falls in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkley, who tends him during his recuperation after beingwounded. She becomes pregnant by him, but he must return to his post. Henry deserts during the Italians’ disastrous retreat after theBattle of Caporetto...
Pax starts with the funeral of Nero's pregnant wife, covers the years when the Roman Empire was at its largest under Trajan, and ends with Hadrian (whose beautiful villa in Tivoli you can still visit). Read expert recommendations Buy now Listen now Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and ...
Her narrative is electric with feel-ings -— quick with a passionate responsiveness to the beauty of nature, the pathos of dumb beasts, the calamities and complexities of the human heart. Gallows’ Orchard tells the story of a Scottish girl who becomes pregnant by one man and marries another...
characters to a big five publisher, Peters’ novel remains both hyper-trans specific and wildly accessible, describing with nuance and grace the experience of trans, cis, queer and gender politics in contemporary America. As Elif Batuman puts it, this novel reads like an updated and transcended...