Sarah spends her days washing, cooking, and cleaning for the Bennet family. The work is back-breaking and never ending, and Sarah knows she will be doing it until she dies. The arrival of an eligible bachelor at Netherfield has the gentry in a buzz, but it’s the arrival of a new footman that has Longbourn’s…
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Review: The Radleys
From the outside, 17 Orchard Lane looks the home of a normal family: mom, dad, two kids, sensible car and appropriate landscaping. Its inhabitants, the Radleys, are nice enough, though a bit abnormal; and they should be — they’re vampires. Trouble is, two of them don’t know it yet. Parents Helen and Peter have spent…
Review: The Things They Carried
(I read this book as part of the Reading Out of the Box Challenge. This book was in the Another Voice category, in which I read a book written from a different perspective than I normally read.) The Things They Carried is a (potentially?) partially autobiographical work by Tim O’Brien. It reads almost as a…
Review: Year of Wonders
In the fall of 1666, whispers of a horrible plague are spreading even faster than the disease. When an infected bolt of cloth makes its way to the small village of Eyam, its citizens make a brave decision to quarantine themselves in hopes of stopping the spread of the disease. But as fall drifts into…
Teaser Tuesdays: Sex
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are simple: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page (as well as the book’s title and author) Be careful not to include spoilers Even though it was a holiday, last weekend…