Notes on Books & Life
Welcome, Reading Buddies! First, a reminder: be sure to vote for April’s book in the poll in the sidebar! Well! How did you like The Razor’s Edge? When I posted two weeks ago, I’d hardly read enough of the novel to have much of an opinion. I just finished the book yesterday and very much …
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After disliking both Bel Canto and State of Wonder, I’d all but given up on Ann Patchett’s novels. JoAnn suggested I try The Magician’s Assistant as a last chance, and I chose to listen to it. About the Book: It isn’t until the charismatic Parsifal, Sabine’s husband and the magician she assisted for years, dies …
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The Last Nude by Ellis Avery came to me through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. It came out last month. About the Book: Young Rafaela Fano is struggling to carve out a life for herself in 1920s Paris when painter Tamara de Lempika spots her out walking one day and recruits her as a model. It …
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Welcome, Reading Buddies! Today we’re discussing The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Published in 1944, it was Maugham’s last major novel. It’s the first novel of his I can remember reading, though I know I read Of Human Bondage years back. Last year, though, I read a collection of Maugham’s short stories, called The …
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In need of an audiobook, I picked up The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon, a book whose cover I love and that I’ve seen around the blogosphere since its publication in 2011. About the Book: On a rainy night in 1968, in rural Pennsylvania, a man and a woman find their way to …
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