bookshelves: summer-2015, published-2015, wwi, war, victoriana, edwardian, e-book, historical-fiction, families, lit-richer, epic-proportions Read from August 25 to 31, 2015 Description: In the brief golden years of King Edward VII’s reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in a...
Thank you to Knopf Canada for providing me with an arc of the book to review. I can’t do it. I tried. I really swear I tried. But it’s been three weeks or so since I’ve picked this book up and I have had such a struggle with it That I’m calling it quits on chapter 51 (page 213, or about 42% of the...
4.5 Stars Birds without Wings by Louis Bernieres.A dense, mesmerising, harrowing and yet humorous novel that will bring out all emotions that a reader can experience but did not think possible in one story. Set in the peaceful fictional village of Eskibahce in south west Turkey and home to Turkish ...
bookshelves: shortstory-shortstories-novellas, published-2009, fraudio, lifestyles-deathstyles Read in November, 2009 The Blurb: Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of t...
This story deals with the Italian invasion and occupation of Greece during World War II, and though the love story between Pelagia, a Greek woman, and Captain Corelli of the Italian army is important, I'd say the central character in this book is the Greek Island of Cephalonia itself where the story...
I had no idea that the thrift store close to home had also second-hand books on sale. I went there a lot of times searching for nice clothes, but never, ever noticed the English books sitting on the shelf. Today I went in this store with a friend and wasn't intending to buy anything when, suddenly,...
*******SPOILER ALERT*******I read this as part of a larger WW1 themed study to get a more focused perspective of the Great War from the point of view of the lives of the people of Eskibahce. I was fully aware that this was a work of historical fiction but my hope was that the author would use this f...
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