Jennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Jenny ErpenbeckJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷'Erpenbeck’s exploration of the period through their affair is thought provoking and enlightening, the black and white with which the West painted the fall of the Wall and its aftermath rendered in more nuanced shades of grey.' https://t.co/pbjhwG93lp via @alifeinbooks
Hardcover, 2023
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Is Mother Dead
Vigdis HjorthJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷'if we dared to look...the bubble would burst, & we didn’t know what would come pouring out...something that would ruin the wall-to-wall carpet...someone would have to get down on their knees to clean it up, & that someone would be Mum.'😟 https://t.co/iVLAIhyjKd via @JacquiWine
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Old God's Time
Sebastian BarryJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷I’m going with the idea that so many people love Sebastian Barry for a reason… Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry: ‘This is the saddest story I have ever heard’ https://t.co/WvysxG8kzs via @alifeinbooks
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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman RushJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷“There were a couple of cases, I won’t say which, where she said that examples of feminine behavior were not truthful,” Mr. Rush said. “I fought her on a couple of them, and it turns out that she was right.” & Where were you when you first read Mating? https://t.co/NYnpTdOqBt
Paperback, 1992
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Little Virtues
Natalia GinzburgJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷Beauty. https://t.co/ClUnD0aLhx
Paperback, 2013
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Run the Tides
Vendela VidaJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷"A thoroughly enjoyable novel, both immersive and perceptive." Anything by Vendela Vida has ME curious! We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida: Beauty and truth, or the lack of it https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2021/06/we-run-the-tides-by-vendela-vida-beauty-and-truth-or-the-lack-of-it/ via @alifeinbooks
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Housekeepers
Alex HayJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷'...strong women, independent in the face of servitude, battling against societal norms and the fact that they have to fight not just the class system but... that as women they are lesser in the eyes of society.' I'm intrigued! https://t.co/vFtn0kOefn via @JanetEmson
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Sidik FofanaJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷'often written in a vernacular which sings out from the page so that you can almost hear it. Fofana explores racism, ageism, poverty, inequality & the assumption of white superiority in stories which are often as funny as they’re poignant.' https://t.co/cQOhi9tmVW @alifeinbooks
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷'Later, particularly after the couples meet, Rooney's writing takes on a more lyrical quality. Her sentences lengthen, the adjectives arrive, the prose practically sings off the page.' https://readingmattersblog.com/2021/09/21/beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney/ via @kimbofo
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia MarquezJennifer Bew Orr ✏️📚📷UGH. "One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez in the style of Rishi Sunak: Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude is like investing in a cultural masterpiece that will appreciate in value with every page turned." https://t.co/2vprAztxUw
Paperback, 2006
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book