I’m wondering if I was just not in the right mindset to read this book the day I tried to read it. Maybe I’m going to be unfair. Then again, maybe I’m not. I’m a big P&P fan, to the point that I read fanfiction fairly consistently. (If you would like some recommendations, I can point you in the direction of some extremely good ones!) I tend to avoid the modern stuff, though, but I thought I’d give this a try. Obviously, I made a […]
A Film Noir State of Mind
As per the book blurb: When Clara Bishop, a struggling screenwriter-turned-tabloid journalist in Hollywood, is jilted by her philandering husband, she follows him to London, determined to win him back. Armed with only a glamorous wardrobe of vintage clothing inherited from her grandmother, a former film noir actress, Clara discovers that the clothes really do make the woman. Dressed to kill, she adopts a new femme fatale persona: confident, sexy and set on revenge. This was a different sort of book that required a suspension […]
I am perhaps simply not fabulous enough
I wanted to like this book more than I did, and if I’m being honest with myself and you I would have DNF’ed this one about half way through if it wasn’t the book I had chosen for Read Harder Task 24: a Self-Improvement book. This is one of the tasks that actually felt like a challenge. I have read, perhaps, zero books in the past which classify as self-help. Sure, I’ve read lots of memoirs, lots of non-fiction, but really no self-help. That’s not […]