Mansfield Park has been my least favorite story of the 3 Austen novels that I’ve completed. The story follows Fanny Price, born to a large poor family and taken in by a more wealthy aunt and uncle who live at Mansfield Park. It is is expressly agreed upon her arrival that she is “less than […]
This month, our book club chose Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Set in current day England, the story surrounds Maj. Pettigrew (retired) as he deals with his brother’s death, the fate of a pair of Churchill guns, a self-obsessed son, and a growing fondness for the Pakistani shop-keeper in town. A main story
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Read More »
With high interest, I placed The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini on hold at the library. It had showed up on many of my friends’ reading lists and I had in passing heard good things about it. I now know that stories about rape and war are not of interest. I didn’t know this was
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan is UCSB Reads 2014 pick. Eagan amassed an amazing amount of information around the people and events surrounding the 1910 firestorm that raged across three states. Egan details how the Forest Service was born amid all the politics and capitalistic spirit
Just as Elinor and Maryanne were Sense and Sensibility, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth were Pride and Prejudice. This is a courtship story where reputation and propriety were the utmost concern. The tale unravels as what was known becomes false in light of a new information. It was similar to peeling an onion, there is always another
Pride and Prejudice Read More »
