Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont – 4/5 Stars I do remember reading this, mostly. It was back in February, I was tired, stressed. And so I would have thought! that I would have written a review of this one. But regardless, here I am. I was reminded of this book recently when I found a copy of the movie in a Little Free Library. Let me tell you a very non-shocking thing about me and Little Free Libraries. I love them, and I think they […]
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A View of the Harbour – 4/5 stars In this smallish novel, we visit a seaside town in southern England in years briefly after WWII. We get a whole cast of different characters, a local artist, a local writer, a single mother, a war widow, a doctor, and town drunk, and various other figures that come and go into the narrative. There is not a story as such, so much as how the various figures in the town interplay, interact and go about their business. […]
The stressed words sounded so peevish.
I can’t very well review all the stories in this collection as it’s a retrospective collective 4o years after the death of a not entirely well-known writer and covers 40 years itself. Oh and there’s 30 stories in it. Of the 30 stories, most seem primed for publication in that they are roughly ten pages long each and have a solidly cohesive and straightforward narrative, if not straightforward characters. Taylor’s writing is trim and funny and hides in subtleties, but like the four novels of […]
The Marriage of the Century
I read How to be a Movie Star after Elizabeth Taylor passed away four years ago and was instantly taken with the story of “Liz& Dick.” Furious Love focuses primarily on the years that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton shared together. There is background on both of their lives leading up to Rome, 1962 and the Cleopatra set but the star attraction in this biography is the 25 years they spent loving and hating each other. Anyone interested in the history of cinema knows the […]