bookshelves: published-1922, spring-2015, travel, nowt-as-queer-as-folk, gutenberg-project, public-domain, e-book, china, tbr-busting-2015 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from July 27, 2013 to April 29, 2015 Produced by Dianna Adair, zsak and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at ...
Having originally rated this book four stars, I rated it up on returning to write a review. And let me tell you, that doesn't often happen to me.When I was reading Of Human Bondage, I wasn't always happy with it. Happy is not the word. Sometimes I felt exasperated, ashamed, angry - not with the writ...
Another book I read after seeing the film. And another book that wasn't nearly as good as it's adaptation. My problem with the book was that the "love" story between Kitty and Walter never felt resolved—there was never that moment where they finally seemed to forgive each other like there was in the...
Arthur Burdon is due to marry his fiance, Margaret Dauncey. The pair have the misfortune of meeting Oliver Haddo, a self-styled magician and pompous ass. When Arthur assaults Haddo, the Magician hatches a plan to ruin Arthur's life in the most insidious of ways...The Magician is a tale of revenge, s...
When I heard about Maughan, he always seemed like one of those semi-comprehensible pretentious authors, whose readership stemmed more from "intellectual" duty than genuine appreciation.I was surprised when I discovered Maughan is not just an easygoing author, his prose is descriptive and almost poet...
This slender volume of ghost stories, an annual tradition issued by Canadian Ash-Tree Press for several years, was quite good as well as interesting. The theme was authors who rarely, or never wrote ghost stories and certainly weren't known, except for Buchan, for their macabre output. These are all...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-1902, under-500-ratings Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from December 22 to 25, 2014 Description: It is the end of the 19th century and Victoria's reign is coming to an end. It is also the end of an era, but no one knows. The landed gentry, so soo...
A meandering story of the life of Philip Carey. The plot is not important as Philip's discovery of the meaning of life. And by meaning of life, I really mean lack of meaning. And while that sounds quite dank and depressing, it really is quite a liberating thing to know and accept your role in t...
A charming novella about a widowed socialite on holiday at her friend's villa in Florence, Italy. Not widowed for long Mary Panton has another potential husband on the horizon. Edgar Swift a life long friend of the family and quite the older man visits Mary at the villa to propose marriage before h...
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