![]() ![]() ![]() In an anthology which claims to champion the boldness of Austen's women I found it rather cheap to introduce a woman who served to do nothing more than reinforce the ideas of the time instead of being allowed to challenge them. Knightley ends by stating that her behaviour is the action of someone who is miserable with their own lot in life, and the 'moral' of the story is that she is a scarlet woman and a pitiable fantasist. Yet those very strengths are used to paint her as a cold-hearted homewrecker a stereotype many strong, independent women have fallen victim to whether it holds any truth or not. Miss Winthrop is on one hand allowed to be a single woman who lives life to the full despite having no husband, which falls nicely within the feminist remit of this anthology. (Emma Woodhouse.) I liked many things about this story, having a particular fondness for Emma and George, but one element troubled me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It pulled me into the story unapologetically and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.” What I LIked:Įverything-I know, this is slightly obnoxious. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. ![]() When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek-the man she never thought she’d have to live without.įor six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books-medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her-Percy and Sam had been inseparable. ![]() Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. “They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My Soul Looks Back is her tribute to that fascinating social circle and their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan’s West Side to the restaurants of Greenwich Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day-luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. ![]() Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” ( New York magazine)-in a vibrant, lost era of New York City. In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. ![]() |