Vanessa rated Middlemarch: 4 stars
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several …
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Vanessa rated The shipping news: 4 stars
The shipping news by Annie Proulx
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the …
Vanessa rated To the Lighthouse: 4 stars
Virginia Woolf, Virginia Leishman: To the Lighthouse (2006, Howes Limited, W. F.)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Virginia Leishman
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …
Vanessa rated The Namesake: 4 stars
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy …
Vanessa rated The Mists of Avalon: 4 stars
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Avalon, #1)
The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 historical fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which the author …
Vanessa rated Gender Trouble: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Romeo and Juliet: 5 stars
Vanessa rated A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: 4 stars
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows …
Vanessa rated Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: 4 stars
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. …
Vanessa rated The Things They Carried: 4 stars
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. …
Vanessa rated When I was a Kid: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Persuaded by race: 4 stars
Vanessa rated I capture the castle: 5 stars
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her …
