September 6, 2016 WILL YOU, WON’T YOU, WANT ME? Peaking Early Offers a Long Downhill Slide by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Chick Lit, romantic elements, Women's Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: Brooklyn, high school, NYC, peaking, Romance A young woman believes she peaked in high school as she flounders through life and is forced to move to Brooklyn. More
February 2, 2016 Toibin’s BROOKLYN: A Bridge over Disaffected Waters by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, Immigration, Ireland, Movie Tie-In, race issues A young woman emigrates from Ireland to the USA in the 1950s. It’s a time of change and opportunity and anything could happen. More
August 9, 2014 LUCKY US Drifting through Life in the 1940s (Audio Book Review) by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: Alicyn Packard, Amy Bloom, audiobook, Brooklyn, family, Hollywood, LGBT, Moral Ambiguity, Random House, WW II Two sisters lives during the 1940s and early 1950s. Check out what I have to say. Any book that starts off with: “My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.” is sure to be interesting. More