I loved this book, I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. Schwab is a great author (wrote the Shades of Magic series set in multiple parallel Londons). I believe this is one of her older books which recently was republished in the US. The idea is that some people are EOs - … [Read more]
Happiness? that entails comfort, organization, a constructed stability altogether foreign to me.
I learned about this novel from two different sources: one, it won a big French literary prize--the Prix Goncourt--which helped me to generate a list of 20th century French writing I might want to check out, and two, another novel by Tournier was placed on Le Monde's top 100 books of all time, which … [Read more]
She left worst for last.
So it's hard to categorize this novel, and in discussing the plot, or conceit, not only doesn't explain anything much about the novel, but actually makes it seem much more banal than it really is. I tell AP Literature (and I would be fired for teaching this one....not really, but maybe), that irony … [Read more]
12th Century Boss Lady
Even as a self-proclaimed Anglophile, and British history major in college, I must admit that I did not know much about Eleanor of Aquitaine. I am very glad to have stumbled upon this completed three-part series by Elizabeth Chadwick. Chadwick is a new author to me, but I enjoyed her style of … [Read more]