Books of 1916: Part One 2016 was a tough year in many ways, so may I introduce you to 1916? I think you’re going to love 1916. I was struck by something I read in a (very nice) review of one of the books of 1916: —“because anything first published in 1916 that does not contain a word or thought ...
This book is extremely good written. Very erotic and very gay-ish. It could have had 50 pages less or 100 pages more, it wouldn't have had any influence on the storyline.(What a storyline?!)It doesn't have a typical beginning, culminating and ending.Here the journey itself is a destination. It is fo...
bookshelves: summer-2015, britain-england, e-book, nutty-nuut, published-2004, tbr-busting-2015, booker-winner, lit-richer, glbt, next, newtome-author Read from July 30 to August 05, 2015 Description: In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill...
The Stranger's Child is divided into five parts taking place in different eras spanning over a century. It concerns itself with the mystery surrounding the life of Cecil Valance, a young poet whose life was cut short in World War I but who was made famous posthumously by his poem "Two Acres". For wh...
It was not perfect, but it was lovely. A tale told in five loosely connected parts, all linked by one character who did not even live to see the second act. Cecil Valance, while very young when killed in the great war, managed to touch many lives both directly [spoiler] he slept with many men and e...