Danielle Leavitt, By the Second Spring Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Danielle Leavitt’s enterprise is an important part of recognising Ukrainians as other than ‘faceless war people.’ In her introduction she makesContinue reading “Week beginning 8 October 2025”
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Week beginning 29 May 2024
Priscilla Masters The Quiet Woman Book 2 of A Florence Shaw Mystery, Severn House, July 2024. Thank you, Net Galley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Quiet Woman is an intriguing murder mystery in so many aspects –characterisation, plotting, pace and writing style. Nurse Florence Shaw is a quiet woman, herself,Continue reading “Week beginning 29 May 2024”
Week beginning 22 November 2023
Catherine Russell The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck University of Illinois 2023. Thank you, NetGalley , for this uncorrected proof for review. Barbara Stanwyck was not one of my favourite actresses, she seemed too pushy somehow, and her films did not appeal – nor did the characters she played. With this in mind, I thought itContinue reading “Week beginning 22 November 2023”
Week beginning 1 November 2023
With my return to London, to a hotel in the east end, * I thought it appropriate to review (The) Queens of London (the proof title includes ‘The’) by Heather Webb, set in the past in the city streets of London. In a few weeks I shall be looking at another book also set inContinue reading “Week beginning 1 November 2023”
Week beginning 23 June 2021
Book reviews this week include a thriller, a domestic drama, and a non-fiction book. The following books were provided to me as uncorrected proofs from NetGalley for advance reviews. Bill Clinton; James Patterson, The President’s Daughter, Random house UK, Cornerstone Century, 2021. My usual choice of reading does not include thrillers such as The President’sContinue reading “Week beginning 23 June 2021”
week beginning October 14
Searching For An Australian Identity, through discussion of A Country Practice continues in Television comments. Zoom and Botox The New Daily reports that ‘Zoom calls have Australians rushing for cosmetic surgery’. Evidently the demand for cosmetic surgery has tripled during Covid lockdown as ‘we are seeing ourselves from a completely different angle for hours aContinue reading “week beginning October 14”
Posts week beginning October 9, 2020
The following books are reviewed in Book Reviews. They were published in 2014, but resonate with current events in America. For example, vigilante movements, ‘the invention of whiteness’ and the demands on women as appendages of political men, as well as those they must adopt to be successful political figures in their own right. HeathContinue reading “Posts week beginning October 9, 2020”
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