Monthly Archives: August 2009
Book review: ‘Darcy And Anne’ by Judith Brocklehurst
After Fitzwilliam Darcy failed to offer for his cousin’s hand in marriage — and went ahead and fell in love with Elizabeth Bennet, that little nobody! — Lady Catherine de Bourgh is less than thrilled with her only daughter Anne’s … Continue reading
Filed under 4-star reads, book reviews
Book review: ‘Millie’s Fling’ by Jill Mansell
British novelist Orla Hart has a problem — and Millie Brady is the solution. After her latest work of fiction is absolutely trashed by the media for its formulaic quality, Orla decides she needs to come up with an “authentic” … Continue reading
Filed under 4-star reads, book reviews
Book review: ‘How I Live Now’ by Meg Rosoff
Fifteen-year-old Daisy leaves the chaos of a world she knows — New York — for a completely new sort of chaos: one with her cousins in England. Desperate to get away from her father and new stepmother, who’s pregnant, Daisy … Continue reading
Filed under 4-star reads, book reviews
‘My thoughts create my world’
Since discovering Megan McCafferty’s Jessica Darling series in the spring, I’ve made absolutely no secret of my complete obsession with the novels. There’s something so serious, tender, and honest about them — I connected with Jessica and Marcus’s love story … Continue reading
Book review: ‘Sundays At Tiffany’s’ by Patterson, Charbonnet
The set-up is interesting enough: a young woman falls in love with her imaginary friend Michael, a man who served as the only constant in her sad, lonely childhood. On her ninth birthday, Michael is forced to part with her … Continue reading
Filed under 1-star reads, book reviews
Book review: ‘After You’ by Julie Buxbaum
When Ellie Lerner gets a phone call changing her life forever, it doesn’t take long for her to hitch herself up and fly across the Atlantic — right to London, where her best friend’s eight-year-old daughter Sophie is now motherless. … Continue reading
Filed under 5-star reads, book reviews
