Kate Forsyth's Blog, page 28
October 13, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Molly & Pim & The Millions of Stars by Martine Murray
The Blurb (from Goodreads): All Molly wants is to be normal like her friend Ellen Palmer. Ellen, with her neat braids and a tidy house and […]
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October 11, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon [...]
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October 10, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Educated by Tara Westover
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs [...]
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October 9, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Bright Edge Of The World by Eowyn Ivey
The Blurb (from Goodreads): Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey’s second novel is a […]
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October 7, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Songwoman by Ilka Tampke
Haunted by the Roman attack that destroyed her home, Ailia flees to the remote Welsh mountains in search of the charismatic war king, Caradog, who is leading a guerrilla campaign against the encroaching army. Ailia proves herself an indispensable advisor to the war king, but as the bond between them deepens [...]
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September 29, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child [...]
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September 26, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends [...]
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September 24, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry's hands the stories [...]
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September 22, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Searching For Sappho: The Lost Songs & World Of The First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman
For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. [...]
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September 19, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easygoing nature conceals hard-won [...]
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