Cosmopolitan compared it to Bridget Jones but this book is really about loss. It isn’t about the laughs and it isn’t about finding someone to spend the rest of your life with.
I originally reviewed this book for Linear Reflections and reprinted it for Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. Read the full review.
Review by Louise E. Sawyer Are your fictional characters vivid and memorable? When I read John Grisham’s novels I am amazed at how well I get to know his major characters. I either love them or hate them and I find myself smiling or anxious. The three sections of Character & Viewpoint cover Inventing Characters,…
Elizabeth George is best known for her psychological crime novels. She has 15 books published. This is her first short story collection. The review of I, Richard was first published at 1/5/2008 at Literary Fiction BellaOnline. The full review of this audio book can now be read at SquidLit.
The characters were enjoyable, the story line was easy to follow and it was entertaining. There may be a few new concepts raised about the Grail and religion but really nothing strikingly new but then again it is a work of fiction and I didn’t read it expecting to find some new revelation. I read…
In White Oleander, Janet Fitch describes the Santa Ana blossoms as desert survivalists, as “delicate poisonous blooms” with “dagger green leaves”. Throughout this novel, the words sing a poetic duet with the reader and, from her opening description, I was humming along. “Oleander time” is a time when white oleanders blossom and “lovers who kill…
Many emotions course through Girls In Trouble: excitement, fear, happiness, love, forgiveness, acceptance, jealousy, and the all powerful anger. With her flowing dialogue and decorative prose, Leavitt draws readers into the life of two families forever connected by one blessed event. Birth. I originally reviewed Girls in Trouble for BellaOnline. Read the full review of…
What could be more beautiful than a family? Why, the debacles of two of course! Awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction, On Beauty follows the Belsey and the Kipps families through 443 pages of shenanigans only family can forgive. This review appeared 7/17/2006 on Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty…