This book is aimed at the YA audience and I found it occassionally patronising in tone, but for the most part a pleasant read. It's quite heavily illustrated with photos and facsimilies and tries to explain not only the poet's life but how his work was experimental, innovative and challenging in ter...
3.5Review to come.
I could not finish it. As much information as it gave me, there was something about the content that would make me lose interest. It could be because I've read other biographies of Jane Austen or maybe the book and I just did not click.
I could write you a summary, but the title says it all: this is a book about Jane Austen's life. As much as anyone can tell about it years and years after she died.I love Austen's books. If you've read some of my Top Ten Tuesday lists you probably know how much I love Jane Austen. And Pride and Prej...
ARC received from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt through NetGalley.I am not a Jane Austen specialist (my sister is), so I enjoyed reading this biography.Catherine Reef's writing was nice, telling us deatils about Jane's daily life, her family and friends relationships, their lifestyles and hardships. The...
Biography of Cummings aimed at middle/high schoolers. Quick and thorough, an interesting read with the bonus of a photograph of the genesis of "Buffalo Bill's /defunct".
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