Title: The Chaperone Author: Laura Moriarty Publish Date: June 5, 2012 Publisher: Riverhead Books Format: Audiobook Page Count: 13 hours, 10 minutes Source: Library (via OverDrive) Date Read: May 2-6, 2020 Review A dull saga about people living in Wichita. I can't even shelve this as "historical f...
Book: While I’m Falling Author: Laura Moriarty Genre: Fiction/Family/Mother|Daughter Relationships/Reflection/Divorce/Struggle Summary (from flap of Hyperion edition): In While I’m Falling, Laura Moriarty presents a compelling depiction of how one young woman’s life changes when her family bre...
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who ...
I seriously loved this book - the story of a regular 1920s Kansas housewife who chaperones a teenaged Louise Brooks to New York, but for reasons of her own. Cora felt like a real woman and I always wanted to know more of her life and of how her experiences change her as the world around her changes,...
This book was narrated by Elizabeth McGovern so it helped my Downton Abbey withdrawal. The story is a fictionalized account of Louise Brooks, a real life movie star in the 1920's, when she was chaperoned from Wichita, Kansas to New York at age 15 by one of her mother's acquaintances. Cora Carlisle ...
I really enjoyed this. The first-person narration reflects the age of the narrator, Evelyn. At the beginning of the book she's 12, and 17 by the end. The sentences and thought patterns become longer and more nuanced as she grows older, reflecting Evelyn's growing maturity. I thought Moriarty did...
I found this story of Cora, and her chaperoning of a young Louise Brooks (a future silent film star) to New York in 1922 impossible to put down. The author did an impressive job of capturing the lives of women in a time of great social upheaval in a very realistic way. So often in historical fiction...
It is 1922, Cora Carlisle, happily married in Wichita, but facing an empty nest, decides to be a chaperone for 15 year old Louise Brooks on her trip to New York City, where she will study with a renowned dance teacher for the summer. Cora’s husband, Alan, prefers that she doesn’t go; but he gives hi...
I read this before my Goodreads.com days, thus I've not written a review of it. However, today's PageADay Book Lover's Calendar had the following review which reminded me of it. This book is one of my all time favorite books.A completely satisfying coming-of-age novel that manages to give you exac...
I'm feeling like I'm in kind of a slump here. The past several books I've read have just been too unbelievable and all the plot-wise events have felt convenient and contrived. This one was not an exception.For starters, the whole ice storm/accident/trucker pick up event was unnecessary. I think M...
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