First of all: what a title! I'm so impressed, from a marketing standpoint. Automatically I know that I can expect a clean romance set in modern times, and the cover reinforces that nicely. Bravo, Julie Wright (or whoever was responsible for title and cover!) The story itself reads like the ...
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I think this is the first Mark Twain novel I've ever managed to finish, so I'm proud of myself for that. It's pretty action-packed; we're quickly introduced to Tom Canty the beggar, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to the Prince of Wales, Edward VI (though they're not identical twins ...
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This was one of my absolute favorite movies growing up, yet I'd never read the original story. It was shorter than I expected, and decidedly a children's tale in the way it is told; there are really no nuances. Everyone is very straightforward and action-oriented. I noticed quite a few deviations ...
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This is probably my third or fourth time reading "Jane Eyre," but my second time in the last couple of years--and I also just finished the miniseries on Amazon with Timothy Dalton concurrently as I listened. Man. Definitely up there with my top five books of all time, if not #1 (though I would ...
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I love Rhys Bowen's "Royal Spyness" mysteries, and I also really enjoyed "In Farleigh Field," which was a much more serious historical novel set in the WWII era. So I'm now pretty much just following her as an author. "The Victory Garden" is also a serious novel, though it is set in WWI. It's also ...
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