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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Stella Bain

Stella Bain is not one of Anita Shreve’s best books.  She writes such easy prose; I really admire it.  But this story seemed thin to me somehow.  A woman leave her children and her abusive husband to join the British army as a nurse in order to track the man who her husband coerced their […]

About A Boy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding.  The 3rd book in the Bridget Jones series, the first of which was truly delightful.  Loved it to pieces. I often use the abbreviation v. for very (as in “that meal was v. good!”) in homage to Bridg.  I read some snarky reviews about this one. […]