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Merle
Merle rated it 6 years ago
This is indeed a literary page-turner, as described in the cover blurb. Barbara Covett, a lonely high school history teacher on the cusp of retirement and aching for meaningful human connections, fixates on a younger, wealthy art teacher, Sheba Hart. Sheba is a wife and mother with a busy social sch...
Jude1111
Jude1111 rated it 7 years ago
4.5 Stars.This is so good!!Passion,Jealousy,Loneliness,Friendship,Forbidden relationship,Manipulation,And brilliant story telling.I watched the film years ago and the book is even better.‘I’m not sure I could categorize what this is. People always want to boil these things down, don’t they ? I want ...
KatieMc
KatieMc rated it 9 years ago
Ok, this read was for my book (and also watch the movie) club. It started slow, and never really grabbed my attention. The premise was a bit like [b:Tampa|17225311|Tampa|Alissa Nutting|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1393784199s/17225311.jpg|23731028] and that didn't go well for me. After being pr...
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 10 years ago
another great book where the author nails it. it being a narrator who reveals more of themselves than they think they are revealing. also a book where I love the movie. I wanted to read the book because of the movie, and now I want to watch the movie again because I read the book - the movie gets to...
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 10 years ago
another great book where the author nails it. it being a narrator who reveals more of themselves than they think they are revealing. also a book where I love the movie. I wanted to read the book because of the movie, and now I want to watch the movie again because I read the book - the movie gets to...
Of Letters and of Sciences
Of Letters and of Sciences rated it 11 years ago
I kind of hated this book when I first read it, but even then I couldn't deny that it was, of course, very well-written. Actually, I kind of (to use a phrase from HBO's GIRLS, which I never thought I would) "love-hate-read" this book. I was really interested in the premise, but I thought the execu...
The Way She Reads
The Way She Reads rated it 11 years ago
The Blurb: “From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St. George’s history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara’s loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered to be having an illicit affair w...
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it 12 years ago
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/12/review-believers-by-zoe-heller.html
ramblings
ramblings rated it 12 years ago
Personally, I prefer this translation over the much-publicized, "Oprah's Book Club" Pevear and Volokhonsky.
Musings of a Bibliomaniac
Musings of a Bibliomaniac rated it 12 years ago
Notes on a Scandal is a multi-layered story. While keeping up with the pretense of titillating readers with the lurid details of a much older woman's romance with an adolescent boy, it skilfully but subtly exposes the hypocrisy practiced by each one of its characters. How each one of them remained s...
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