Title: The Clocks Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 34 Publisher: Berkley Paperback: 257 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent—not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for… Continue reading Book Review: The Clocks by Agatha Christie
Title: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging Author: Louise Rennison Series: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 1 Publisher: Harper Teen Hardcover: 247 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository There are six things very wrong with my life: 1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk… Continue reading Book Review: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Title: Ralph the Heir Author: Anthony Trollope Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing Paperback: 544 pages Source: Open Source (Project Gutenberg) Summary: (taken from Goodreads) This novel tells a story of crossed inheritance. One Ralph Newton, a handsome ne’er-do-well, has the expectation of the family property. His cousin (also Ralph Newton) is a wholly worthy fellow, but a bastard and may not by… Continue reading Book Review: Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
Title: Tess of the D’Urbervilles Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: Penguin Paperback: 392 pages Source: Own Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne’er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long… Continue reading Book Review: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Title: Oliver Twist Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Penguin Classics Paperback: 608 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark… Continue reading Book Review: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Title: Invincible Summer Author: Alice Adams Publisher: Little, Brown Hardcover: 308 pages Source: BEA 2016 Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey. Inseparable throughout college, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie, and Lucien graduate in 1997, into an exhilarating world on the brink of a new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien… Continue reading Book Review: Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
Title: Ann Veronica Author: HG Wells Publisher: Penguin Books Limited Paperback: 352 pages Source: Own Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her attending a fashionable ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in… Continue reading Book Review: Ann Veronica by HG Wells
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Signet Paperback: 160 pages Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture… Continue reading Book Review: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Title: The Body in the LibraryAuthor: Agatha ChristieSeries: Miss Marple, Book 3Publisher: HarperCollinsPaperback: 207 pagesSource: PurchasedSummary: (taken from Goodreads): The body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find… Continue reading Book Review: The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Author: Susanna Clarke Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Paperback: 1006 pages Summary: (taken from Goodreads) At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England’s history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England–until… Continue reading Book Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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