As it is part of the Beautiful Series, I simply added a new section for Beautiful Beloved to the end of my standing review.
Washington’s Monument Is The One Dollar Bill
Some might object to any type of mudslinging at such a legendary figure as George Washington, but I can assure you that nothing of the sort takes place.
Beautiful girl, lovely dress, high school smiles, oh yes.
It’s a good book, but I wish it didn’t have to go there. There is a spoiler involved in this review, but I put it at the end, so you should be safe as long as you heed my warning. (That first sentence is a link, by the way. I don’t know why they don’t show up as such on the main page, I seem to remember them showing up last year.)
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
I’ve now read all of two Edith Wharton novels and she is fast becoming one of my favorite writers. With beautiful evocative prose, Wharton creates the socially circumscribed world of early 20th-century East Coast America, a bleak place where romantic tragedies occur. In The House of Mirth, the main character Lily Bart was a beautiful young woman whose family status gave her access to upper class New York society but whose sex and poverty severely limited her ability to function successfully there. In Ethan Frome, […]

