Along with a slew of decadent musicals came a slate of fast-talking, raucous comedies. Divorce-remarriage plots, fish out of water stories, and fierce, funny women all figure in the genre.
REVIEW: ELEGY FOR EDDIE by Jacqueline Winspear
A Maisie Dobbs Novel I am quite aware that this is a series, and a popular one at that, but this is the first Maisie Dobbs novel I have read. Spunky and precocious, Dobbs defies convention by owning her own business and having skipped a few rungs on the social class ladder. Maisie grew up…
Read my review of RULES OF CIVILITY. I liked it better than The Great Gatsby…
REVIEW: RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles
The overall theme is that life is an adventure unwritten, and not every turning reveals good fortune. When a shattering accident affects all in their small but close-knit group, it sends each shard of their relationship in multiple directions.