The Pursuit of Love
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Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing...
Caffeinated Fae (464 KP) rated The Book Thief in Books
Jul 10, 2018
This novel was very interesting. It's a collection of short stories narrated by death. It follow the life of a young German girl during the time of world war 2. It's told in a different way by having "Death" as the narrator.
This was a pretty quick read. It makes you think too. It's one of those novels that will make you think about the depravity of human beings and give you some hope along side of it.
All in all, it was a good novel that deals with World War II.
Samuel Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable
Samuel Beckett and Gabriel Jospovici
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Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of...
The Night Bookmobile
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Audrey Niffenegger's two novels, "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "Her Fearful Symmetry", have made...
Jack of Spades
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From one of the most highly regarded writers of her generation, JACK OF SPADES is a psychologically...
The Eustace Diamonds
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"The Eustace Diamonds", published in 1872, is the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser...
RavenclawPrincess913 (253 KP) rated The Silent Unseen in Books
Jun 8, 2022
Author: Amanda McCrina
320 Pages
Published on April 5th 2022
Genre: Historical fiction
This book takes place in Poland in July of 1944 during World War Two. The main character Maria is on her way home after labor she was forced into in Nazi Germany only to find her parents deceased and village gone from the war. When her brother Tomek commander of the local Resistance unit disappears Maria is determined to find him.
This book had a slow start but I love Historical fiction especially World War Two novels so I decided to continue. I loved the plot of the story it's very interesting and felt so real. I love what you can learn from historical fiction novels too. It shows us how emotional and hard it was for the people living during this time. I will be honest that some parts were hard to follow listening to the audiobook though so if you plan to read this book I reccomend getting the physical copy. It didn't take away from the storyline though I still loved it. Finally, I would definitely reccomend reading this emotional book if you love Historical fiction and love novels about World War Two.
David McK (3798 KP) rated The King in Rome (Warrior #1) in Books
May 28, 2023
Even more so - again, IMO - with those set during the time of the Roman Empire: I think we're approaching 20, now, of his full length Cato and Macro novels (edit: as of typing this, 22 novels).
I can't say much about TJ Andrews, other than I'm aware he has collaborated with Scarrow on a a few e-book novella's.
This is the latest in that collaboration, taking - as it's inspiration - the tale of Caratacus, the British warlord who defied the Empire before the time of Boudica, and who appeared in some of the earlier Eagle (aka Cato and Macro) novels as an antagonist. Eventually defeated by the Roman legions, Caratacus was spared by the Emperor Claudius to live out his life in the confines of Rome (and with Prefect Cato being name dropped when he mentions that in this novella), which is where this series of novellas picks up, as Caratacus is persuaded to tell his life story to a Roman historian who first encounters him at a banquet hosted by the Emperor Nero.
Told, therefore, from the 'other point of view' than the usual, I'm interested in seeing where this goes!
