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Archive for August, 2009
Great Story Trumps Technical Flaws
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Psychological novel, tagged America, black community, Du Bose Heyward, gentrification, race relations on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Peder VictoriouSuffers Fractures
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Historical, tagged American History, Dakota territory, frontier, Norwegians in America, O. E. Rolvaag, pioneers on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In Peder Victorious, O. E. Rolvaag looks at the second generation of Norwegian pioneers who broke the Dakota prairies to the plow.
Peder Victorious Holm and his siblings think of themselves as Americans. Their mother, Beret Holm, still regards herself as Norwegian. She wishes her children to speak, read, think in Norwegian; have only Norwegian friends; [...]
Clear-eyed romance entrances
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Coming of age, Psychological novel, Romance, tagged London, medicine, Warwick Deeping on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Warwick Deeping’s Roper’s Row is an engaging romance about a brilliant doctor who finds love on his doorstep and tries to step around it.
Plot Tops Characterization in Bishop Murder Case
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Mystery, tagged mathematicians, nursery rhyme, S. S. Van Dine on August 5, 2009 | Comments Off
If you don’t mind mysteries with plastic characters, you’ll find The Bishop Murder Mystery a good read.
