Anne Morrow's story, as told through Benjamin's eyes, reflects a lot of issues beyond the primary details surrounding her marriage to American hero Charles Lindbergh and the infamous story behind the kidnapping/death of their first child. It will make for a good book club discussion which is one...
This novel is well-researched and well-written, but also as long, slow, and dull as (I guess) the life of a middle-class Victorian woman must have been. Emotion, emotion everywhere, but there is almost no action of any kind. I love characters with rich inner life, but there is not such inner life...
I liked the Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb but didn't love it. I found the beginning of the book really compelling and hard to put down. But after Vinnie's marriage to General Tom Thumb her character's voice loses so much of her bravado and enthusiasm, and instead becomes naggingly materialistic...
I chose this book as I had enjoyed another of this author's The Aviator's Wife. I am not a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland but wanted to read another of Benjamin's books. This is set in Oxford prior to and including WW1. The story involves multiple generations of dysfunctional affluent educated ...
I had a terrible time reading this book. I felt like it took away the whimsy and magic that I've always held for the story of Alice in Wonderland. While reading this story, I stepped away from my usual genre of romance in an attempt to broaden my horizons. While I'm probably better for trying som...
Ann Woodward woke up that morning feeling like hell. She always felt like hell, but that morning of October 9, 1975, the sky appeared grayer, the air colder, her breath more of a waste than it had seemed the day before. She had a headache; she’d had a headache for so long, she knew she’d feel wor...
MEASLES. PERITONITIS.Dr. Acland could not make up his mind as to the cause of Edith’s sudden decline. He felt her pulse, looked at her dilated pupils, and palpated her stomach, even cut her wrist to study her blood. In the end, all he could do was shake his head and try to make her comfortable. Y...