Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëBook club “I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.” After eight years as a student and teacher at Lowood School, orphan Jane Eyre is anxious…
Tag: Science fiction
What I read: May 2024
A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltBecky ChambersFiction, hardback, library book “…every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I — we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we…
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: November 2023
CackleRachel HarrisonFiction, hardback, library book “It’s astonishing what you’ll accept when you want love. When you need it. You’ll welcome it in any form, from anyone, anything, regardless of circumstance, however peculiar. However fantastical.” Like every other 30-something New Yorker recently dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie is looking for a fresh start. Her new…