The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A review. (CONTAINS SPOILERS.)
Month: May 2013
House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
I just finished reading this, about 10 minutes ago (SPOILERS AHEAD.)
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves was the first book of the two-book series. The second book, Chinese Cinderella, was a book I studied at school when I was 13. I am writing a review of Falling Leaves. (SPOILERS BELOW.)
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
I really don’t know what to say about this book, so I’ll just dive straight in under three titles: ‘the good’, ‘the bad’ and the ‘ugly’. But firstly, I first came across the film (TV drama, natch.) because I’d seen Richard Chamberlain play the comic role of Prince Edward in Slipper and The Rose. But… Continue reading The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Harrogate Secret by Catherine Cookson.
A review (may contain spoilers.)
Secrets by Lesley Pearse.
I borrowed quite a few of these, I realized. However, here is a review of ‘Secrets’ by Lesley Pearse.
North and South.
This isn’t going to be a psychoanalysis of Margaret Hale and John Thornton. Just a simple review. And this is on the book, not on the adaptation with Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage.
Painted Veil – the book vs. the movie. (SPOILERS.)
I love the 2006 adaptation of the movie, and I read the book for the first time last year. Only yesterday I borrowed the book again because I wanted to write a brief comparison between the two. However, this is not a dissertation. See it more as an observation.
Cranford.
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. What to say about this book? Well, it is essentially a book ‘about nothing’ i.e.: there is no plot shift as would be the norm in other books. We are just given a glimpse of the goings-on in Cranford over a period of time. However, one thing it does excel at… Continue reading Cranford.
Every Book Is Beautiful 