Pink Chicks Book Corner

This is my favorite Jane Austen novel. I love the main character Fanny Price because she has a strong sense of what is right. She is brought to her Uncle and Aunts estate, Mansfield Park, when she is a child. She grows up among her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. Soon Henry and Mary Crawford, brother and sister to the new reverend at Mansfield Park, join the party. Henry Crawford flirts with both Julia and Maria, focusing more on Maria, even though she is engaged. Fanny is an observer of his behavior toward her cousins and confidant of Edmund, who is enamored of Mary Crawford. Fanny does not like either of the Crawfords; her own feelings for Edmond figure in some of her feelings toward  Mary. Eventually after events with her cousins go awry, Henry turns his attentions to Fanny. At first he wanted to woo her as a challenge, irrespective of the feelings of Fanny, but he does   develop feelings for her. Fanny repels him to everyone around her displeasure. She holds fast to rejectin

In this first book of The Weaver Trilogy we meet Tanwen, an orphan who has a magic in telling stories. When she is telling a story, strings of color from her fingers form an object of the story. Tannie lives in the nation of Tir, a land ruled by a tyrannical King. When she unwillingly weaves a story that is treasonous to the King, she has to flee her home to escape the Kings guards. She leaves behind a farmers family that had looked out for her and the boy was her best friend who wanted to marry her. Tannie wants to travel and weave her stories instead of marrying him. She eventually falls in with a group of outlaw weavers, who are also wanted because of their powers. When Tannie picture is put on a reward poster, she leaves the group and heads towards the capital of Tir. Tannie is concerned about her friends in her hometown that she left behind. She is captured and taken to the King. The King usurped the previous good king and has put in place laws that prevent people from questioning

For this review, I am going to be writing about a book I read and another I listened to on audiobook. A Flicker In The Dark by Stacy Willingham is about a psychologist who is the daughter of a convicted serial killer. Chloe, the psychologist, has struggled with the fact that what her father did destroyed their family. Her mother is in a nursing home, and her brother Cooper does not like her fiancé Daniel. Then teenage girls start to go missing just like twenty years before when her father was convicted of murder. Both girls are found murdered. One of the girls was a new patient of Chloe and the other girl she and Daniel had met when she had looked at venues for their wedding. Chloe starts to suspect people around her, including a father of one of the girls her father was convicted of killing, and especially her fiancé Daniel when she discovers a piece of evidence in their closet, of being the killer. There is a twist that involves a journalist from New York and surprising for Chloe, re

                                                                                                                                                                 Welcome to the review of my first book for January 2023! I read Trust by Hernan Diaz and I did enjoy it overall. I liked the prose of the book and felt that it was well written. The story is interesting and I thought  the way the author structured the narrative was pretty good.                                                                           The story opens with a novel Bonds by a character named Harold Vanner. This book is based on the life of a New York stockbroker Andrew Bevel and his wife Mildred. The novel presents a bleak look at the Bevels life, who are renamed Benjamin and Helen Rask in Vanners story. Fiction does mirror the reality for the Bevels in some ways. Not so much in others. Trust is told through Vanners novel, Andrew Bevel and the drafts of his autobiography, Ida, the young woman who is tasked to help

 Hi everyone! My name is Holly and I am starting this blog because I love to read and want to read more this year. For January, I will read three books and write review blogs for each of them.                                  A Flicker In The Dark by Stacy Willingham is a thriller/ mystery about a woman whose past will haunt her on the cusp of her wedding. Trust byHernan Diaz is a book about a wealthy couple in the depression era and speculation abounds about them. A novel written in the 1930’s deepens the mystery about them.                                                                                            Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is my favorite Austen book. Fanny Price lives with her aunt and uncle on their estate, Mansfield Park. Fanny and her cousins are put to the test in several situations. So these are the books for this month. I will be reading both Christian and secular books in the coming months. Thanks for reading.