My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Why did I delay reading this book for so long? I finally brought it to work, where it sat on …
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both…” Did you ever wonder what your …
Austenland by Shannon Hale
NOTE: I’ll be reviewing The Gods of Heavenly Punishment later this week as part of author Jennifer Cody Epstein’s September …
Guest Review: Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen
GUEST REVIEW: In addition to adventuring around the nation’s capital, fellow blogger Discover DC Living is an avid reader, from …
NW by Zadie Smith
NW opens with “Visitation,” a chronicle of life according to Leah, told through artfully written stream of consciousness and more …
A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
Time to pull out Rebecca Fraser’s The Story of Britain once again. I wanted to be sure I had my …
55 of 55: The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
I began my year of “55 books at age 55” with an A: Alice I Have Been. So it’s fitting …
53 of 55: Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
I like Anna Quindlen’s writing: novels such as Black and Blue and essays enjoyed over the years. I have a …
52: Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King
Long live the detective novel, done well. I’ve spent the weekend in 1924 Morocco, an occasionally harrowing but continually captivating …
50: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
This seemed like an ideal book for me: set in a small English village and featuring an intelligent, charmingly old-fashioned …
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