![]() Every time I read it, I get something new from it. In 1930s New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy. I have written essays about it, flirted with handsome men over it, leant it out, given it away. ![]() I have read this book at least ten times. It is about being young in the 1920s, with all its post-war glamour. It is about the rupture of war in every facet of life in every level of society. It’s about the American Dream and the violence inherent within it. It is about the madness and delusion of love. ![]() But this brief plot summary is not what the book is about. Nick watches his friend, Daisy, endure a loveless marriage to a bully and briefly revive an affair with the dazzling, deceitful, Jay Gatsby, before it all ends badly. It's set in 1922, on an island off New York City, narrated by the passive Nick Carraway. So richly lyrical that it always threatens to tip over into melodrama, but somehow never does, this brief but vibrant story always grounds itself in the fundamental need to be loved. How can I feel so uplifted, so enraptured, by a tragic story of deluded liars? The language: Fitzgerald’s writing is transcendent. Billy learns control over the powerful forces threatening his life in two unrelated activities: reading about gangland heroes and juggling on Bathgate Avenue. Is this the perfect novel? I suspect it is one of them. ![]()
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Set in the fictional Irish seaside resort town of Castlebay, the novel follows the lives of several local families between the years 19. A four-part television miniseries was adapted from the novel in 1988. As Binchy's second novel, it explores various themes of Irish small-town life, including social classes and expectations, the paucity of educational opportunities before the introduction of free secondary education in 1967, and women's roles. ![]() Echoes is a 1985 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is rape, murder, pure evil and treachery – in fact it is a very, very dark series. It is a bold book that to some extent glorifies the work of assassins, justifies the work of prostitutes and paints thieves in at very least a grey fashion. The first book in the series The Way of the Shadows came out in 2008. It was in Brent Weeks’ own words, “A huge gamble by the publisher, but it was one that paid off.” People read the books within 30 days and wanted to have the next one in their hands instantly. This one month wait between each book was almost unheard of and although it was a bold move, it paid off. ![]() When Brent Weeks wrote the Night Angel Trilogy his publishers weren’t prepared to make us wait a year for each book. This allows time for readers to finish a book, have a bit of a change and then re-visit a world about a year later. Typically, a fantasy trilogy will take between three and four years from the first book until the last book is released. It takes a special kind of author to write three books and have them sold consecutively on a monthly basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() She then followed her sister to the University of Wisconsin where Forbes wrote extensively for the Wisconsin Literary Magazine. After finishing high school, she took classes at the Worcester Art Museum and Boston University, and later, Bradford Academy, a junior college. Her academic work, however, was not spectacular, except for a few writing classes. Both her parents were historical enthusiasts.Įven as a little child, Forbes displayed an affinity for writing. ![]() Her father was a probate judge in Worcester and her mother, a writer of New England reference books. Her family roots can be traced back to 1600s America one of her great-uncles was the great historical figure and leader of the Sons of Liberty, Sam Adams. Esther Forbes was born in Westboro, Massachusetts in 1891, as the youngest of five children. ![]() |