Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry Penguin, Kindle edition, 2024. Bonnie Garmus has skilfully woven together comedy, whimsy, engaging characters, and a story line that draws attention to a series of notions that, seemingly relatively benign initially, reach their logical conclusion with the terror of sexual harassment and a well-argued case that discrimination against women isContinue reading “Week beginning 2 April 2025”
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Week beginning 27 December 2023
Karen Brooks The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson Harlequin Australia, HQ, July 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Unlike The Good Wife of Bath where Karen Brooks’ Eleanor instantly endeared herself to me, it took me longer to warm to Tribulation. However, it was well worth taking that journeyContinue reading “Week beginning 27 December 2023”
Week beginning 25 January 2023
Michelle McSweeney OK Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Object Lessons is a fun series – and more. Items, and in this case a word, gain a different dimension under the writers who lead us into the history, the political ramifications, and social dimensions ofContinue reading “Week beginning 25 January 2023”
Week beginning 21st April 2021
Book reviews this week are Scourge of Henry V111 The Life of Marie De Guise, Melanie Clegg; and The Good Wife of Bath : A (Mostly) True Story, Karen Brooks – see Books: Reviews for the full reviews. Both books were provided to me by NetGalley for review. As I finished the biography of aContinue reading “Week beginning 21st April 2021”
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