It’s been one year since I studied abroad in Paris. I miss it–a lot–and it’s gotten to the point where I am searching every online calendar to find out about any event related to French culture. Thankfully, in Newport, events for Francophiles are fairly easy to come across–I suppose that’s what happens when you live […]
Read MoreConsidering the last book I read was Paris by Edward Rutherfurd last summer, I’ve been in dire need of more time and a lighter read. My brother Dylan passed Yes Please onto me after he finished it–he told me it was funny and easy to read. Just what I was looking for. The book did not […]
Read MoreParis: The Novel will be a story I will continue to treasure alongside my other favorite novels. Rutherfurd’s latest historical fiction artfully blends character with France’s past to create, as Bookreporter put it best, a “tour de force.” Rutherfurd transports the reader back and forth between five different families over various periods in history, including the […]
Read MoreIn the interest of learning about sustainable fashion–a system that counteracts all-for-profit “fast fashion” with ethical responsibility to global communities and the environment–I found Naked Fashion on the library’s online catalogue. Naked Fashion: The New Sustainable Fashion Revolution is written by Safia Minney, founder of People Tree, a Fair Trade clothing company based in the […]
Read MoreWritten by Honore de Balzac, Old Man Goriot is another one of Balzac’s novels exploring the human condition. The book follows Eugene Rastignac, an ambitious student, and Goriot, an outcast, yet devout, father. Rastignac seeks to establish himself in Parisian society by having an affair with Goriot’s daughter, but circumstances throughout the novel cause him […]
Read MoreSource: chapters.indigo.ca via Robin on Pinterest Little BeeWritten by Chris Cleave The back of this book reads: We don’t want to tell you WHAT HAPPENS in this book. It is a truly SPECIAL STORY and we don’t want to spoil it. NEVERTHELESS, you need to know enough to buy it, so we will just say this: This […]
Read MoreJane EyreWritten by Charlotte Bronte Since Jane Eyre has been around for some time, I do not believe I could summarize it in a way that does it justice. New York University provides a summary of Jane Eyre written by Pamela Moore and Jack Coulehan, which may be found clicking here. The romance of Jane Eyre […]
Read MoreThree Cups of TeaWritten by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin “One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time” Education–it is the most precious good the United States. Education is responsible for the technological innovations that put our country in a powerful global position. Not corn fields. Not reality television. […]
Read MoreThe Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris Written by Alicia Drake Drake exposes the lives of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent, two designers who “shared the same stage, but a different destiny.” Both Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent were visionaries in the business,tried to […]
Read MoreCover of Ragtime Ragtime Written by E.L. Doctorow In addition to Mountains Beyond Mountains and Interpreter of Maladies, Ragtime is another novel I will be studying sometime this year. I refuse to keep reading it. It’s infuriatingly boring to be quite honest. There’s random sexual imagery that can’t save this historical fiction from its inevitable […]
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