Posted in Book Review, tagged fiction, literature, reading, women on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
a place of safety
Anita Brookner has written not so much a coming of age story as a coming to terms story. Zoe Cunningham narrates her own life story, beginning with her childhood as the daughter of a reclusive but kind widow who takes good care [...]
Posted in Book Review, History, tagged biography, nonfiction, reading, Shakespeare on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Living art
“A universal master whose achievement is timeless, Shakespeare is nevertheless inseparable from his age – the brilliant pageant of Elizabethan England.” This pocket sized book demonstrates the truth of this back cover blurb, and does so in style. This is a souvenir style little [...]
Posted in History on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coming of age
Girl with Green Eyes is very much a part of its era, a decade when mores, sexual and other, were rapidly changing. Kate Brady is a 20-ish farm lass just come to big city Dublin, eager for life and a first [...]
