This is one of those books that I read and finish and then forget with that curious brand of immediate reader amnesia I sometimes get, which is what caused me to start writing goodreads reviews in the first place. The amnesia is a pity, because I'm pretty sure I found it frequently charming. Pagi...
I do love Fowler's work. But I have to say I found this book a disappointment.The story concerns the members of a Jane Austen book club--five women and one man--who meet to discuss the books. The structure is thus roughly divided into six months, and each month one of the people leads the discuss...
WHY I READ THIS BOOKFowler is best known as the author of "The Jane Austen Book Club." Based on that book, I had dismissed the author as a chick lit writer and never so much as glanced at her other work.Several months ago, there was an ongoing online discussion about why female authors were rarel...
Karen uses a first person, present tense frame around a past tense narrative that often sounds omniscient--a terrific risk that I love, getting omniscient effects out of a first person narrator, a gambit the novel shares with one of my favorites, The Great Gatsby. This approach is sometimes refe...
"You can do anything you want. You don't have to be the same person your whole life."I really liked this tale focusing on the elite of early San Francisco in the mid 1800s. Fowler writes of Lizzie Hayes, an unmarried well off woman who works as the treasurer for a white orphanage, the Brown Ark; ...