I picked this up for a dollar at our city’s big library sale, having never heard of it or the author, but intrigued by the cover. Nothing Daunted turned out to be quite the interesting read! Based on letters written to her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, and Dorothy’s best friend, Rosamond “Ros” Underwood, Wickenden pieced together the extraordinary lives of these two women, focusing on the year they spent teaching in the Rockies in 1916. Two society ladies, raised in great wealth and privilege, decided to take […]
She started an unorthodox penpal scheme. You won’t believe what happened next!
Did you like my click-bait headline? I’m not going to lie, I’m quite proud of it. 🙂 Shy and scientifically-minded Miss Madeline Gracechurch suffers from anxiety attacks and couldn’t bear the thought of having to be out in society during the Season. So she comes up with a fictional suitor, a strapping and handsome Scotsman that she met on the beach in Brighton and who’s unfortunately gone off to fight Napoleon. She keeps writing letters to the brave Captain Logan MacKenzie to keep up with […]
Interesting and yet not what I expected
Add me to the ranks of Cannonballers who enthusiastically recommend this book. And the only reason it’s not fully enthusiastic is that Dr. Mütter’s Marvels wasn’t quite what I thought it would be.
Didn’t really fall for this one
On the evening of her betrothal party, the duke Miss Sarah Forrester is set to marry, confesses that he is in love with another. Sarah is instantly named “the girl who lost a Duke” in society and prepares to become a complete social outcast. However, one of the leading ladies in society advises her to reinvent herself, and soon Sarah is known as “The Golden Lady”, the glittering, carefree toast of the town. Not everyone is as happy about her drastic changes, though. Sarah’s childhood […]
“Love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain”
Narfna‘s recent review of this inspired me to re-read an old favourite. Intrepid Victorian spinster Amelia Peabody travels to Egypt after her father’s death, determined to explore the world and see the treasures she’s read about for so many years. On her way through Rome, she is forced to send her companion home, but meets a lovely young lady in distress, and they strike up an instant friendship. Evelyn Barton-Forbes is the granddaughter of an earl, seduced by a scoundrel and left destitute in Italy. […]
Featuring surprisingly few lepers
Paula Nangle’s The Leper Compound seemed like a books with incredible potential, but it ended up being pretty disappointing in the end. The writing style, very loose and dreamlike, didn’t lend itself well to the material, which was harsh and unforgiving. Maybe Nangle did that on purpose, aiming for contrast, but it ended up muddled and confusing instead. The novel focuses on Colleen, a white girl growing up in the late 20th century in Rhodesia. Her mother died when she was seven, and Colleen herself nearly died of […]
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