Such a Fun Age
reviewdate:
Jan 2 2020
isn:
9780525541929
Tagged with literary fiction
A Woman Is No Man
reviewdate:
Jul 15 2019
isn:
9780062699787
book type:
Imaginary Girls
reviewdate:
May 7 2019
isn:
9781101516133
book type:
Here Comes the Sun
reviewdate:
Oct 18 2018
isn:
9781631491764
book type:
Trouble
reviewdate:
Sep 26 2018
isn:
9780385530385
book type:
The Last Cruise
reviewdate:
Jun 14 2018
isn:
9780385536288
book type:
recommendation:
Pachinko
reviewdate:
Mar 19 2018
isn:
9781455563913
book type:
recommendation:
Free Food for Millionairs
reviewdate:
Mar 11 2018
isn:
9780446504348
book type:
recommendation:
Pleasing Hour, the
Jeune fille is French for nanny. 19-year-old Rosie is spending a year in France escaping her life by taking care of three kids with an exacting mom and a physician dad on a houseboat in Paris. Ooh la la. While the storyline might make this book sound like chick lit, it's really not.
Quotations:
Today I thought of the first time I realized you [older sister] were not me. I was five and you were setting that red alarm clock and I watched you and I knew that you weren't having the same thoughts. That you wouldn't dream the same thing that night. And that we would die at different times. And that you might die first. It was the first time I ever felt alone. I feel that all the time now.
Three rows down [at a bullfight in Spain], Americans were pushing their way through, boys in backwards baseball caps and T-shirts advertising universities or pubs in other countries. They were boys with wide shoulders and loud laughs, boys oblivious to their foreignness, their wealth, and their freedoms. I felt a sudden compassionate, maternal contempt for them.
reviewdate:
May 15 2013
isn:
0-87113-754-2