I read this years ago and I swear it changed my attitude about what was possible for a woman to have and to refuse. I haven't read it in years but I will re-read it someday for sure. I vaguely remember the movie with Colleen Dewhurst and Lee Remick. Would love to find and watch that again someday!
There could be some slightly better editing. For instance, in the start of a section on Russia in the 1970s, French claims that no one died of starvation under the communists. Maybe post-WW II, but I’m not willing to buy such a statement. I wouldn’t buy it about any country in the world. Still, ...
3.5While I found this volume to be just as rewarding to read as the first, I had some problems. They are listed below.1. I don't understand the implication that King Phillip's War has the highest death total on American soil. The Civil War had more dead. I will admit that one can advocate that th...
Some contemporary novels eventually become very instructive as historical ones. The mid-century social trappings have changed and to some extent certain issues like working outside the home have moved toward resolution, but the ingrained assumptions and the violence haven't changed a bit. In a react...
At once dated and still revelent, this is a book where you find yourself reading closely and then skimming parts. I wonder, for instance, how the bits about Zimbabwe if have gotten worse considering. I also, quite frankly, what to point out some bits.(1) Rap music, today, one could agrue gets far ...
In one of those odd synchronicities, I was midway through the first half of this book when my husband and I watched the second-to-last episode of From Earth to the Moon, The Original Wives' Club. What struck me about the women in the episode was that, although the show painted it as the extraordinar...
If you don't know, George Sand is the very male pen name of the very female Aurore Dupin de Franceuil, born in Paris in 1804. To live independently and write novels, she defied convention and whatever else needed defying. For this she was much slandered and scorned, even by the alleged avant-garde o...
If you don't know, George Sand is the very male pen name of the very female Aurore Dupin de Franceuil, born in Paris in 1804. To live independently and write novels, she defied convention and whatever else needed defying. For this she was much slandered and scorned, even by the alleged avant-garde o...
I love Edith Wharton, so I was bound to enjoy this book and I did. Enough and more has been said about her easy writing style - a pleasure to read. Characters as usual believable and sharply etched. At the end of teh book, I was overwhelmed with the intensity of my feelings for Boyne - feelings of p...
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