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May. 25th, 2016 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordlj2016 books update: Some good, a couple were meh.
Villa America - Liza Klaussmann
Not bad but not as good as I thought it would be. Wealthy American couple living in a villa in the south of France in the 1920s, friends with and host to all the beautiful people of the lost generation. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest and Hadley Hemmingway, and a few others that I don't know. Includes a somewhat dubious made up romance with a pilot. Lives of the rich and privileged.
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
On the other hand, very, very enjoyable. A family tragedy has a lifelong effect on the remaining members. Two teenage brothers have to bring up their younger sisters. Life is cruel, life changes you. Some people can move on from the past and some hang on to it. Good characters, good story.
Fluke - James Herbert
It's a dog's life but what if the dog used to be a man and remembers it? Quite good. Different.
A Train in Winter - Caroline Moorehead
Tells the story of mostly women in the French Resistance in Paris during WWII, what happened to them in the concentration camps and how they survived. Brutal, not always easy to read, but interesting. I never knew about this aspect of the war before. I knew there was a Resistance but not the role of women in it.
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
Always thought I should try one of his books and after Villa America and him being a character in it (also have read Hadley's story as a fictional account a few years ago) I decided on this one. Not overly impressed but it was ok. Didn't really like the characters much.
Villa America - Liza Klaussmann
Not bad but not as good as I thought it would be. Wealthy American couple living in a villa in the south of France in the 1920s, friends with and host to all the beautiful people of the lost generation. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest and Hadley Hemmingway, and a few others that I don't know. Includes a somewhat dubious made up romance with a pilot. Lives of the rich and privileged.
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
On the other hand, very, very enjoyable. A family tragedy has a lifelong effect on the remaining members. Two teenage brothers have to bring up their younger sisters. Life is cruel, life changes you. Some people can move on from the past and some hang on to it. Good characters, good story.
Fluke - James Herbert
It's a dog's life but what if the dog used to be a man and remembers it? Quite good. Different.
A Train in Winter - Caroline Moorehead
Tells the story of mostly women in the French Resistance in Paris during WWII, what happened to them in the concentration camps and how they survived. Brutal, not always easy to read, but interesting. I never knew about this aspect of the war before. I knew there was a Resistance but not the role of women in it.
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
Always thought I should try one of his books and after Villa America and him being a character in it (also have read Hadley's story as a fictional account a few years ago) I decided on this one. Not overly impressed but it was ok. Didn't really like the characters much.
