Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
Sunday 7 July 2024
The Other Side Of You - Facts
The thing that brings Elizabeth to open up to Davey is Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus. The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus.
Saturday 6 July 2024
New Book - The Other Side Of You by Salley Vickers (Pages 1 - 13)
First Published: 2006
Davey is a psychiatrist who practises in two hospitals as well as having his own private practice.
Falling For Gatsby - Facts
This short story draws a parallel between Lucas and Martha, and the characters in The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
The Alchemist's Daughter - Facts
Emilie was told that her mother came from a French family of silk traders who settled down in Spitalfields in London.Spitalfields is in East London and situated in the East End. The late 17th and 18th centuries saw an estate of well-appointed terraced houses, built to accommodate the master weavers controlling the silk industry, and grand urban mansions built around the newly created Bishops Square which adjoins the short section of the main east–west street known as Spital Square.
Thursday 4 July 2024
Wednesday 3 July 2024
New Book - The Alchemist's Daughter by Katharine McMahon (Pages 1 - 91)
First Published: 2006
It is the eighteenth century, and Emilie Selden lives with her widowed father in their cavernous house.
Good Girls - Facts
Eleanor and Kat grew up in East Sussex. East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Kent to the north-east, West Sussex to the west, Surrey to the north-west, and the English Channel to the south.
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The Other Side Of You - Facts
The thing that brings Elizabeth to open up to Davey is Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus. The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Ita...
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The chapter about Alva Vanderbilt tell us about the complicated relationship with her husband, who had affairs with other women on his yacht.