Here's another to add to the list, if we want a 'lighter' read some month:
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. It's out in paperback -- I read it with some friends, and we all really enjoyed it.
A couple excepts from Janet Maslin's NYTimes review:
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On the first page of the first chapter of her first novel, “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand,” Helen Simonson invites her readers to experience love at first sight. A starchy retired British Army officer named Maj. Ernest Pettigrew has just learned of his brother Bertie’s death. Distracted by grief, he happens to be wearing a red, flowery housecoat when he answers a ring at his front door. He opens the door and casts a tearful eye on the dignified, elegant, foreign-looking woman who will win his heart.
.... read this one page, and you may find you’ve fallen head over heels for Ms. Simonson’s funny, barbed, delightfully winsome storytelling. .....
...Its main characters are especially well drawn, and Ms. Simonson makes them as admirable as they are entertaining. ...It’s about intelligence, heart, dignity and backbone. “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” has them all. >>
I'm still having problems getting on the blog, something to do with Google ...
Hope everyone's having a wonderful holiday -- Happy New Year to all! Ann
1 comment:
Alot of people love this book. It would probably be a good one for our group.
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