THE RULES OF MAGIC: First, Do No Harm
A family with special gifts allows fear, safety concerns, and desired social position to influence how they behave.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: curses, family life, magic, sexual orientation, siblings, Witchcraft, Women's Fiction
A family with special gifts allows fear, safety concerns, and desired social position to influence how they behave.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: jane austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
How many versions of Jane Austen’s masterpiece can I enjoy? Well, it seems at least one more.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: abuse, contemporary women, fitting in, Literary Fiction, socialwork
An awkward woman with a horrific past may blossom at last.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: Anne Tyler, Hogarth, Marriage, misogyny, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
How do you adapt THE TAMING OF THE SHREW to a contemporary novel?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: being cool, mid-life crisis, middle age, passing the torch
You don’t always get to live your dream, but why not?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, contemporary humorous romance, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: Chip Bingely, Curtis Sittenfeld, Fitzwilliam Darcy, jane austen, Jane Bennet, Lizzy Bennet, P&P, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, retellings
The best retelling of Jane Austen’s P&P I have ever come across! Delicious!
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: France, Louis XV, Marriage, Mistress, Paris, Sisters, Versailles
Five sisters in the court of Versailles during the reign of Louis XV.
“Carefully researched and ornately detailed, The Sisters of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new historical fiction trilogy about King Louis XV, France’s most “well-beloved” monarch, and the women who shared his heart and his bed. ” Tantor Media
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: birth order, family, Literary Fiction, morality, religion, Sisters
The author uses a plural point of view to tell the story of three sisters returning to their parents’ home as adults.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: bookshop, Britain, Farm, lies, Polish Pilots, secrets, WWII
A young woman tries to unravel the secrets of a letter to her grandmother from her grandfather who met during WWII.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: 1930s, Depression, friendship, Gigolo, Manhattan, NYC, Spanish Civil War
Two female friends develop a rivalry over a wealthy man. But is he what he seems to be? Is anyone?
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction • Tags: Great Depression, grief, loss, scandal, West Virginia, wpa
A young woman, a woman of thirty, and a young debutant all come of age in different ways as truths of the past are revealed. Beautifully written.
by Guest • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Detective • Tags: China, Literary Fiction, mystery, Shanghai, thriller, Xiao Bai
Today’s review of the FRENCH CONCESSION by Xiao Bai comes from the mind of my guest reviewer, and husband, Don Desbiens. It’s about Shanghai in the 1930s: a fascinating and, apparently frightening, place.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: adaptation, Brenda Bowen, Chick Lit, copy, intuition, Maine, Penguin Audio, romantic comedy, vacation
A translation of Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel, “The Enchanted April,” from Edwardian England and Italy to modern day Maine.
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: 18th century, exile, France, Jacobite, King James, Rome, The RIsing
A present day women with an uncanny ability to decode ciphers decodes and translates the diary of a woman who is a part of the 18th century Jacobite families in exile in France.
by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Fiction, historic elements, Literary Fiction • Tags: BBC, Emma Fielding, Literary Fiction, London, Mod, Nick Hornby, Penguin Audio, Swinging Sixties, Television
The story of a young woman trying to break into comedy but without a clue. Her whole life changes when she moves to London and learns it’s about talent and being in the right place at the right time.