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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 | 24 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 | 11 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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