Category: British Literature

Thoughts: Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

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Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 5 Orlando is Virginia Woolf’s sixth major work and was written in a year, between To the Lighthouse and The Waves. It is an epic novel and historical biography which follows… Continue Reading “Thoughts: Orlando by Virginia Woolf”

Category: 1001 Books, 2013 B2tC Challenge, 2013 Challenges, 2013 TBR Pile Challenge, Art, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Classics Club, Feminism, Fiction, Fictional Biography, Gay Lit, Gender Identity, Giveaway, Giveaway Hop, Giveaways, GLBT, LGBT, Literary History, Literature, Monthly Review, Sexuality, Time, Virginia Woolf

Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 42 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is considered to be (by its narrator) “the saddest story” ever told.  The implication… Continue Reading “Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford”

Category: 1001 Books, Adultery, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Fiction, Ford Madox Ford, Literature, Modernism, PhD, Unreliable Narrator

Review: The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (#OthersLitLGBT)

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

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The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 45 The Swimming-Pool Library is somehow both more and less than it would first appear.  Its main character, William Beckwith, is a wealthy, privileged young man – an inheritor of… Continue Reading “Review: The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (#OthersLitLGBT)”

Category: 1001 Books, Alan Hollinghurst, Book Review, British Literature, Fiction, Gay Lit, GLBT, LGBT, Literary Others Event, Literature

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 38 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful (socially, academically, etc.) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in… Continue Reading “Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen”

Category: 1001 Books, Book Review, British Literature, Classics, Jane Austen, Literature

Review: Sanditon by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR)

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

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Sanditon by Jane Austen Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 31 Sanditon, though unfinished, is perhaps Austen’s most exciting, unusual, and promising piece of literature.  Unlike The Watsons, whose plot and ending can be relatively inferred, Sanditon is quite different from any of her other… Continue Reading “Review: Sanditon by Jane Austen (#AustenInAugustRBR)”

Category: Austen in August, Book Review, British Literature, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Unfinished Works

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