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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton — review
Having read a few works by Edith Wharton, I’ve become familiar with her beautifully articulated style. Still, I was nonetheless impressed by just how accomplished The Touchstone is considering that it is Wharton’s first published novella. The story revolves around Stephen Glennard, a New York lawyer, who doesn’t have enough money to marry his sweetheart,…
1900s, 20th century, 3rd pov, 4 STARS, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, american classics, beautiful prose, books about writers, CLASSICS, Edith Wharton, female authors, GUILT, HISTORICAL FICTION, introspective, MARRIAGE, morality, NEW YORK, NOVELLA/SHORT STORY, psychological, published in 1900, read in 2020, ROMANCE, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, the touchstone, unrequited love -
Maurice by E.M. Forster — book review
“No tradition overawed the boys. No convention settled what was poetic, what absurd. They were concerned with a passion that few English minds have admitted, and so created untrammelled. Something of exquisite beauty arose in the mind of each at last, something unforgettable and eternal, but built of the humblest scraps of speech and from…
1900s, 1910s, 20th century, 3.5 STARS, 3rd pov, academia, bad love, bildungsroman, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, British author, british classics, Cambridge, campus, class, CLASSICS, coming of age, E.M. Forster, Edwardian era, england, first love, Forster, Greece, greek myths, HISTORICAL FICTION, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, lgbtq+ classics, LONDON, Longing, m/m, male authors, masculinity, Maurice, morality, philosophical, published in 1971, queer, read in 2020, ROMANCE, SEXUALITY, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, Southampton, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, unrequited love -
Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare — book review
“We don’t always love people who deserve it.” To be honest, I thought I was over Cassandra Clare….and it turns out I was very wrong. There is something about the Shadowhunter world that I find interesting. And over the past ten years or so I have grown fond of it and the characters that inhabit…
1900s, 20th century, 3rd pov, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, action, adventure, Alastair Carstairs, AMERICAN AUTHOR, balls, bi side characters, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold, Cordelia Carstairs, curses, DEMONS, drama, Dreams, Edwardian era, england, female authors, gay side characters, ghosts/spirits, great storytelling, HISTORICAL FICTION, lgbtq+, LONDON, m/m side, MAGIC, monsters, PARANORMAL, published in 2020, queer, queer side characters, read in 2020, REVIEWS, ROMANCE, shadowhunters, siblings, The Last Hours, TLH, URBAN FANTASY, YOUNG ADULT -
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow — book review
“Reason and rationality reigned supreme, and there was no room for magic or mystery. There was no room, it turned out, for little girls who wandered off the edge of the map and told the truth about the mad, impossible things they found there.” Readers who have yet to dip their toes in the vast…
1900s, 1910s, 20th century, 3 STARS, adventure, Alix E. Harrow, America, American, books about books, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), FANTASY, fathers & daughters, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, MAGIC, MAGICAL DOORS, portal fantasy, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, ROMANCE, story within a story, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, why the hype, YOUNG ADULT -
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster — book review
A Room with a View evokes a gentle Edwardian idyll: we follow the story’s characters through their paced long walks, their wanderings through Italy (in Florence there is the lovely view of the River Arno, Basilica of Santa Croce, Piazza della Signoria, and later on in Fiesole’s high fields Lucy, our main character, will undergo…
1900s, 20th century, 3rd pov, 4 STARS, A Room with a View, aristocracy, ART/CREATIVITY, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, british classics, class, CLASSICS, drama, E.M. Forster, Edwardian era, england, Florence, HISTORICAL FICTION, HUMOR, Italy, LGBTQ+ Author, male authors, MARRIAGE, READ IN 2019, ROMANCE, Rome, satire, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, summer reads, travel
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