Oh dear – two disappointing reads this week! S.E. Lynes The Perfect Boyfriend Bookouture, January 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I found this book a disappointing read, with none of the page turning enthusiasm other reviewers have expressed. However, there were some twists, undermining stereotypes and raisingContinue reading “Week beginning February 12 2025”
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Week beginning 7 August 2024
Laura Katz Olsen Wrinkled Rebels Vine Leaves Press, July 23, 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I loved reading this absorbing account of the young women and men who developed their political ideas and responses while at university. Now in their eighties they are to meet again, andContinue reading “Week beginning 7 August 2024”
Week beginning 10 August 2022
Two fiction books are reviewed this week, Murder on Sea, by Jane Adams, and Why She Left, by Leah Mercer. Both were sent to me by NetGalley as uncorrected proofs for review. Jane Adams Murder On Sea Joffe Books 2021 (First published by Severn House Publishers 2007). This is Book 1 of the Rina MartinContinue reading “Week beginning 10 August 2022”
Week beginning 14th July 2021
This week’s nonfiction review is Rebecca, an analysis of the film. Patricia White, Rebecca, BFI Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London and New York, 2021. I was thrilled to receive this thorough interpretation of Rebecca from NetGalley. Rebecca is a film with which I have grappled. I became reacquainted with the novel and its author during aContinue reading “Week beginning 14th July 2021”
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