Rutherford Park is the estate of the Cavendish family and like any good British estate, it is rife with intrigue and drama. Elizabeth Cooke captures all the details, upstairs and downstairs, in her new novel Rutherford Park, the story of the Cavendish family, on the cusp of World War I. Despite the many changes in the world around them, the English aristocracy continues to ... Read More...
Chris Bohjalian Interview
On Monday I reviewed Chris Bohjalian’s new book, The Light in the Ruins. He is the critically acclaimed author of sixteen novels, several of which are my all-time favorites. He is also a genial and kind person, willing to take some of his personal time before his book tour starts to answer my questions. He’s been interviewed hundreds of times so he’s been asked just about ... Read More...
Happy Anniversary to Me
Imagine my surprise when I looked at my archives and realized I’d been writing this book blog for one year. Yes, it all began with a classic, The Way We Live Now. If it didn’t weigh 15 pounds I’d recommend it as one of the great summer reads of all time. And if I didn’t have a TBR (to be read) pile that looked like this: I’d read it again. Thank you to everyone who ... Read More...
The Light in the Ruins
The Light in the Ruins, Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, is set at the Villa Chimera in Tuscany in 1943, a pastoral estate where the war is largely unseen. The Rosatis are a titled Italian family and while they have one son preparing for the Allied invasion in Sicily and another who works at a museum trying to control the flow of Italian art out of the country, their lives ... Read More...
Sunday Sentence: The Art of Fielding
Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. His (world) would always be occluded by the fact that his understanding and his ambition outstripped his talent.- The Art of Fielding by Chad Horbach ... Read More...
The Adventuress by N.D. Coleridge
Vanity Fair is William Thackeray’s cutting look at the foibles and caricatures of Victorian England, as manipulated by the very tenacious and unscrupulous Beck Sharpe. In The Adventuress, author N.D. Coleridge takes this vixen of literature and recasts her in the modern day world as Cath Fox, a young woman from lowly and questionable beginnings who has no intention of ... Read More...
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