The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became HomesJudith FlandersNon-fiction, paperback “…the woman’s ability to keep house became central: it reflected her value. It was no longer simply a matter of was the house adequately cleaned, scrubbed, polished? It was how the upkeep had been achieved, which measured not hygiene, but…
Tag: Non-fiction
Category: Review
What I read: March 2024
The Facts of MidlifeRobyn PetermanFiction, audiobook “I’d only been forty for three hours and it was already seriously bad. The solitary hand was the rancid icing on top of a really crappy birthday cake.” Daisy knew that turning 40 would mean some changes — gluing body parts back onto ghosts wasn’t on her bingo card….
What I read: February 2024
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-HuntingSophie IrwinFiction, audiobook “They paused there for a beat, looking at each other with mutual calculation. It occurred to them both, then – though of course they did not know it – that they might equally have agreed to pistols at dawn.” Kitty Talbot has three months to catch a wealthy…
What I read: January 2024
Romancing Mister BridgertonJulia QuinnFiction, audiobook “ ‘Isn’t it nice,’ the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, ‘to discover that we’re not exactly what we thought we were?’ ” Penelope Featherington has loved Colin Bridgerton for more than half her life, with zero expectation that he would ever return…
What I read: December 2023
The QuickLauren OwenFiction, hardback, library book “There were owls in the nursery when James was a boy.” When James Norbury moves to London after his graduation from Oxford, he tells his sister Charlotte that it’s with the intention of becoming a writer. Soon, however, he finds himself pulled away from his efforts by a charming…