Eh...... so it ended. It started great, it started really intimate. Reading Harriet's letter, following her going tangent on her story telling, this was the part I enjoyed most. Afterwards i kept on feeling like seeing a complete parts w/ slightly skewed arrangement or perfect arrangement w/ some mi...
This novel tells the story of Patricia Dolan, a middle-aged art historian who finds herself in the midst of a mid-life crisis of epic proportions. The book opens with Dolan in the midst of a large-scale art heist, which removed a Vermeer from the clutches of none less than Buckingham Palace. Dolan i...
Too derivative. Hated the use of baring the device.
I don't have children, but I enjoyed these essays nonetheless. Some very interesting perspectives from a variety of women on raising girls in our modern world, and trying to find the balance between girliness and feminism.
I particularly enjoyed the meta elements, the footnotes. Clever.
I like memoirs/biographies. And, I liked this one. It gave an interesting look at what life was like in the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's for those who ran with the Broadway and songwriter crowd. But, because of the title, I expected to learn a lot more about George Gershwin from this. Gershwin actuall...
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