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A Summer in Europe, by Marilyn Brant – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on 26 January 2012 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “A chorus of Happy Birthday roused her into greater awareness of the rest of the group.  Her aunt, who’d managed to light candles on a big, chocolate, sprinkle-covered birthday cake, came forward in song and demanded Gwen’s attention.  She thought about her wish: to be happy, secure, [...]

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On Rereading by Patricia Meyer Spacks – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on 21 January 2012 | 23 Comments »

Guest Review by Aia A. Hussein Not too long ago, I picked up my old and battered copy of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and reread the novel.  It was my third reading.  I was pretty confident that I would stop reading after the first few chapters, thinking that I only wanted a small dose of [...]

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Forbidden, by Syrie James and Ryan M. James – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 11 January 2012 | 10 Comments »

Guest review by Christina Boyd Look out, Alyson Noel. Make way, Becca Fitzpatrick. Heads up, Lauren Kate.  There is a spectacular new Young Adult (YA) writing team on the horizon!  Forbidden, authored by a mother and son writing team is their debut supernatural novel chocked full of intrigue, romance and humor.  But whyever is a [...]

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The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 30 December 2011 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Br. Paul Byrd, OP “In the days when success in life had depended on marriage and marriage had depended on money, novelists had had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce [...]

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The Little Women Letters, by Gabrielle Donnelly – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 12 June 2011 | 8 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict There are many reasons why books published well over a hundred years ago are still relevant and well loved today.  One of these reasons is that as a reader you become so invested in the lives of the characters that you can’t help but [...]

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Evenfall, by Liz Michalski – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 5 April 2011 | 6 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “In summer the trees are full, but in fall they drop their leaves, and the valley surrounding land crouches below the house like a cat before it springs.  If someone searched very hard, they could just see, from that attic window, the things they hold most dear: [...]

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Friday Mornings at Nine, by Marilyn Brant – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 3 March 2011 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “Relationships are so complicated, and the path strewn with thorns, that everybody struggled somewhere down the line.  Early in the dating process. Those rough first years of marriage.  Later, when midlife crises and doubts rushed in.  Passion waxed and waned across the board, didn’t it?  And so [...]

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The Countess and the King, by Susan Holloway Scott – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Randomly Not Jane Austen Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 30 January 2011 | 6 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “I deftly slipped free as soon as I could with a pretty, breathless show of resistance, enough to make him smile as he let me return to the ball. Seduction was better played in several acts, and we both knew it.  But that single kiss had excited [...]

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