The Great Gatsby starts out slow, like the tortoise and the hare slow, but like the tortoise its a winner. Like I said, The Great Gatsby takes a while too easy into until Daisy’s husband Tom is seen having an open affair it was a bit like wallpaper paste. But then Tom slugs his annoying, […]
I have been in a major reader’s funk, I’ve had trouble becoming interested in one single novel or holding my attention. For me this is very rare! To the point of being concerned. Unfortunately, The Hunchback of Notre Dame had to fall in the period. Several years ago I had a friend who had applied […]
Flavia is one of the reasons why I have recently fallen in love with mysteries. She is like a cat, quick on her feet, mischievous and plays by her own rules. Although Flavia is most like a cat in her cleverness, she is smart with being precocious or an 11-year-old know it all, instead she […]
First Impressions Like Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands, a percentage of people can rattle off most of Henry VIII wives and like Richard Burton, Anne Boleyn is always among them. But what of her sister Mary, the King’s first choice, the other Boleyn girl? The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory writes like an autobiography. Through the […]
Lizzie, our lead protagonist visits the camp with her master Drayle and looks at this time as a mini-vacation to spend with her friends, Sweet, Reenie and Mawu. Wench was an interesting concept but went absolutely nowhere. The bases of the plot was the girls doing some sort of chore, followed by anal sex and […]
Now, Voyager is a classic novel which was later popularized by the 1942 film starring Bette Davis. I first became antiquated with the novel through the cinema due to my favorite actress being Bette Davis. Therefore, I knew the story going into it but this did not tarnish the novel. The film followed the novel […]
What was the first thing I thought of while starting this book, prohibition, flappers, the bob? No, no and no, the first thing that came to mind was Micheal Jackson’s PYT Pretty Young Thing — and I’m not even a fan! Cordelia starts off as a runaway bride from a small town in Ohio who […]
Overall, I enjoyed The Luxe series but even after a week to reflect on the conclusion I’m still unsure how I feel about it. But one thing I have agreed upon is the universal theme of unrequited love. No matter how you spin it the ending of the Diana/Henry romance will satisfy a very small […]
At first, the Holland sisters, Elizabeth, and Diana seem to have it all being the desired socialites and now, despite her best friend Penelope’s resentment Elizabeth is suddenly engaged to Henry Schoonmaker. Everything appears perfect until Elizabeth is thrown from a horse and buggy and disappears into the Hudson River. Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe is […]
From the beginning I knew there was a secret even deeper repressed than just the fall of the Romanovs. His dear May had a vast collection of Fabergé eggs an item Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina collected. The couple’s only child, a son had hemophilia, a disorder that the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich had. And what happened to […]