Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has packed up her children and moved from San Francisco to Europe to get away from her philandering husband. While she is in France, she meets and eventually develops a relationship with Robert Louis Stevenson, a man ten years her junior, who will become famous as the author of pieces such Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (unfortunately, that’s the only thing of his I’ve read). Their life and their relationship ends up being very determined by his […]
Sarajevo to Chicago
I actually first saw this book on a list for new releases in 2013, and though it peaked my interest, I didn’t hear much of anything else about it, so I decided to wait. I finally picked it up recently, and thought it was a pleasant enough read. Some of the essays were incredibly moving, while a few others didn’t quite work for me though they were well-written. I just don’t tend to pick up short fiction or non-fiction that often, and when I do, […]
Not Your Average Dandy
I received this book from Siege as part of the Pajiba gift exchange, and it really was the perfect read for me – I’m quite a fan of mysteries, especially ones set in the past, including the Mistress of the Art of Death series, and Stefanie Pintoff’s works. This novel is actually came before many of the ones I’ve read recently, and is the first of a four part series starring Julian Kestrel. I will definitely be picking up the next three at some point […]
A Fitting Conclusion to An Amazing Trilogy
This is actually book 41 for me, but I’m several reviews behind. But this book was so good, and I want to post about it, so I’m going to go ahead and post here, and then post it to my blog when I’m actually caught up because I want to keep things in order over there. I try not to reveal too much, but spoilers for earlier parts of the series. I pre-ordered this book back in January, so when I got home on yesterday, […]
A Look into the Personal Life of a Political Man
Anyway, this was a very approachable book to Marx’s life and to an extent, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx. I definitely appreciated that this wasn’t very dry, and that it was a relatively engaging read. However, I felt like I wanted something deeper. I think the author did a good job of explaining what Marx was doing and how his life progressed, but I am not sure I always understood the why. Why did this middle class German who was connected to aristocracy by marriage […]
A Modern Day Anna Karenina
In What Happened to Anna K., Irina Reyn takes the story of Anna Karenina and sets in modern day New York, in the Russian Jewish immigrant community. For the most part it works very well, and even though I knew the broad strokes of the story, I was very interested in seeing how she would make everything work together. After all, would Anna even work as a character in the 21st century? Given the different times, it doesn’t seem like what she did was that […]
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