After the beach reads reviewed last week I am pleased to make a change and review a non fiction book. NetGalley and Sword and Pen provided me with Dr Vivien Newman’s Changing Roles Women After the Great War. I am reading The Times They Were a-Changin’ 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the BattleContinue reading “Week beginning 29 June 2022”
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Week beginning 22 June 2022
I realise that I have a few fiction books – easy reads for the beach or for relaxing with on winter days – that I have reviewed, but not posted here. The reviews have already been posted to NetGalley, Goodreads, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram as part of the commitment to writers who make their uncorrectedContinue reading “Week beginning 22 June 2022”
Week beginning 18 May 2022
The books reviewed this week are one non-fiction – Marc Schapiro’s Beatle Wives: The Women the Men We Loved Fell in Love With and a novel by Joan Long, The Finalist. Both were provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Marc Shapiro, Beatle Wives The Women the Men We Loved FellContinue reading “Week beginning 18 May 2022”
Week beginning 11 May 2022
The review this week is from a book I am so pleased to have purchased. Difficult Women A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, by Helen Lewis is an excellent discussion of feminism, feminist issues, and those that we refer to in feminist histories (as well as those that sometimes are deliberately omitted). The blurbContinue reading “Week beginning 11 May 2022”
Week beginning March 30 2022
I am catching up on some reviews written a while ago, and not posted to this blog. They have been posted on Good Reads, Twitter and Linked In as part of the process of reviewing for NetGalley. Donna Leon Give unto Others Grove Atlantic Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022. Reading a Donna Leon is always delightful.Continue reading “Week beginning March 30 2022”
Week beginning 9th March 2022
NetGalley provided me with the uncorrected proof of Lisa Z. Lindahl’s Unleash the Girls The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra and How It Changed the World (And Me) in exchange for an honest review. Lisa Z. Lindahl Unleash the Girls The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra andContinue reading “Week beginning 9th March 2022”
Week beginning 2 March 2022
Reviewing Tom Stoppard A Life was an interesting process – looming large was the question ‘How did I enjoy the plays of this conservative person who, in my opinion, dined too many times with Margaret Thatcher? The closest I could come to recalling any sense of political unease was at the end of seeing NightContinue reading “Week beginning 2 March 2022”
Week beginning 23 February 2022
Clare Chambers The Editor’s Wife Arrow Books, Penguin Random House 2021. The Editor’s Wife is a complex novel, with some seemingly simple elements that add to the storyline so successfully that it is not until later that their wider impact becomes clear. Contrary to the title, which foreshadows one woman as the focal point, anotherContinue reading “Week beginning 23 February 2022”
Week beginning 9 February 2022
Reviews for Bright Young Things by Jane A. Adams and All the Lights Above Us seem to have been lingering on my NetGalley shelf, without being transposed to this blog. So here they are – two fiction books sent to me by NetGalley for honest reviews. Jane A. Adams Bright Young Things Severn House 2021.Continue reading “Week beginning 9 February 2022”
Week beginning 2 February 2022
Thank you NetGalley for the two fiction uncorrected proofs sent to me for in exchange for honest reviews. Each must be given a star rating for NetGalley and I gave The Final Case 5* and The Watcher Girl 3*. David Guterson The Final Case Alfred A Knopf 2022. How can my words, reviewing The FinalContinue reading “Week beginning 2 February 2022”
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