Daughters of the North (3M)
Daughters of the North, known as The Carhullan Army in the UK, is a dystopian novel set in an environmentally and economically ravaged Britain. Citizens are forced to be registered in cities where they are assigned work for the good of the state. Contraception is mandated and every female is fitted with a device […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
Detective Story (3M)
Written in 1977 but published in the US for the first time this January, Detective Story by Nobel laureate Imre Kertesz tells the story of a group of men who, while working for an unnamed Latin American country’s government, go too far to stop their political enemies. While I thought Kaddish for a […]
Popularity: 40% [?]
Dreamers of the Day (Lesley)
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Historical Fiction
Copyright 2008
Finished on 1/22/08
Rating: 4.5/5 (Terrific!)
Book Description
“I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won’t really understand your times until you […]
Popularity: 29% [?]
Dervishes (Literary Feline)
Dervishes by Beth Helms
Picador, March 2008
Fiction; 314 pgs
Completed: 12/03/2007
Rating: 3 Stars
First Sentence: The telephone chimed as it always did, in the deep, dead middle of the night.
Reason for Reading: One of my places to look for book recommendations is Bookbrowse. Several months ago Bookbrowse began a pre-release program called First Impressions for […]
Popularity: 15% [?]
Dreamers of the Day (3M)
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell is a fictional story about Agnes, a middle-aged woman from Cleveland, who finally gets the courage and means to travel on her own. Her choice is Cairo, and while there she meets up with Winston Churchill, Gertrude Bell, and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) while they are […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
Dreamers of the Day (Jill)
Historians will tell you that to understand the present you must comprehend the past. I believe that is what Mary Doria Russell is trying to show us in her latest book, Dreamers of the Day.
At initial glance, Dreamers of the Day is a coming-of-age novel about late bloomer, Agnes Shanklin, who becomes an heiress after […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
