Posts tagged with ‘Women’s Fiction’
June 7, 2012
CROSSWORDS, VINTAGE COUTURE, pigs spice up a fun tale of a Manhattan artist trying to choose among her suitors.
Grade: SOLID B
PERFECT ON PAPER
New American Library
2012
Tags: New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
May 9, 2012
MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY SAGA takes on class, race, adoption, reproductive rights, but never quite comes alive.
Grade: SOLID B
THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU
Gallery Books
2012
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
May 6, 2012
MAGNIFICENTLY ENTERTAINING SOAP-OPERA tale of a woman finding a secret society/support group for spurned wives.
Grade: B PLUS
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
Kensington/Dafina
2011
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Novels, Women's Fiction
April 6, 2012
COMPULSIVELY READABLE, STYLISH novel traces fifty years of friendship among well-heeled Manhattan women.
Grade: B PLUS
GOSSIP
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, New York City, Novels, Women's Fiction
March 5, 2012
PAM HOUSTON’S NOVEL mixes travel narratives with tales of difficult relationships; alas, vaguely unsatisfying.
Grade: B MINUS
CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED: A NOVEL
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Novels, Women's Fiction
February 28, 2012
SWEEPING EPIC ADVENTURE follows a Spanish woman from poverty to success as a couturiere to wartime espionage.
Grade: B PLUS
THE TIME IN BETWEEN
Atria
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spain, Women's Fiction, World War II
February 16, 2012
ART-WORLD SOAP OPERA is a compulsively readable pageturner depite its over-the-top melodramatic plot.
Grade: SOLID B
IN MALICE, QUITE CLOSE
Viking
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
January 31, 2012
CHARMING, SURPRISINGLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING Australian women’s fiction tale of a suburban mom with amnesia.
Grade: SOLID B
WHAT ALICE FORGOT
Putnam/Amy Einhorn Books
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
December 28, 2011
PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE in crisis combines a breezy, humorous chick-lit style with unexpectedly deep insights.
Grade: SOLID B
THE PILE OF STUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS
Grand Central
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
November 6, 2011
SWEEPING HISTORICAL ROMANCE of an American heiress and an English duke has old-fashioned Whartonesque charm.
Grade: B PLUS
THE AMERICAN HEIRESS
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction