I wonder if my lack of December reading progress has more to do with being busy with the holidays, my having already reached me 2018 reading goal or if it is because I have spent the last two weeks either depressed by or disappointed in my book choice. Perhaps it is a combination of the three. Everyone Brave is Forgiven focuses on three main characters who live in England at the onset of World War II. The novel opens with society girl Mary North who volunteers […]
British WWII Drama is My Jam
I love British things and have a fascination with anything World War II so naturally I was drawn to Chris Cleave’s novel Everyone Brave is Forgiven. Everyone is the tale of a handful of young friends through the first few years of World War II in London and beyond. It has love rectangles, death, racism, smoking, morphine and bombs all in one tidy package. The novel opens with our heroine, Mary North, going to the war office to volunteer to help almost as soon as […]
Sneaking in another good one, before the deadline
And here we have a full Cannonball, completed at the last possible moment! That’s fine though, because I’m at least finishing up with an excellent book. Everyone Brave is Forgiven is the interwoven tale of three interesting and intrepid characters, set in World War II London. From their very first introductions, till the bitter end of the story, I was so involved with them that I genuinely worried for them, given the fact that they were, you know, in an active war zone and all. […]
Disappointing in so many ways
I really thought I would like Little Bee – it had fantastic reviews, the cover/summary looked really interesting and for god’s sake, Pamie Ribon recommended it. But I really just didn’t, and the more I read, the more frustrated I became. It could have been such an incredible story, but it fell completely flat. Little Bee is a Nigerian refugee who has spent two years in a London detention center. When she leaves it illegally, she calls the only people she knows in Europe: the O’Rourkes. But five […]