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Amanda’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Amanda Vaill
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Waiting for It
... That’s kind of how you feel when you’re waiting for the public unveiling of something you’ve spent years of work and emotional, psychological, and intellectual capital on: as if you’re walking unprotected into a falling rock zone.
Fortunately, the first substantial “public” review of Hotel Florida has just appeared – early! – in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and it’s not a falling rock, it’s a bo Read more of this blog post »
Fortunately, the first substantial “public” review of Hotel Florida has just appeared – early! – in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and it’s not a falling rock, it’s a bo Read more of this blog post »
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"Loved the audio book. Focused on Eliza & Angelica Schuyler, it adds both facts and perspective to this period of history. Richly detailed. Big personalities. Battles—military & political—epidemics, slavery, finances, infidelity, tragedies and triumph"
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"Heard about this book on either an NPR or NYT Daily broadcast - and being a big fan of Hamilton, I wanted to read this take on the Schuyler sisters.
It's interestingly a lot more actual history than I thought - the previews gave me the impression that" Read more of this review » |
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Deborah Getzoff's review
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"Well-researched page turner
Highly detailed and well told history and family history coinciding with current interest in the American Revolution in other media. Beautifully written with important details about Hamilton‘s wife and other women of that p" Read more of this review » |
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"Amanda Vaill’s book “Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution” is an excellent account of the American Revolution, the events leading up to it, and the years after, with a focus on one of the foremost families of the time. Ang"
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Apologies for not responding promptly to your question -- I was dealing with the copy edited manuscript of my new book (about the Schuyler Sisters) and haven't been checking Goodreads.
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“We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
“Le Bal du comte d’Orgel.”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
“In a road-mender’s hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: “La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau.” (“Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.”)”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Bright Young Things: March 2014- Everybody was so Young by Amanda Vaill | 18 | 29 | Mar 25, 2014 04:50AM | |
| Bright Young Things: February 2014- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 66 | 139 | Jun 12, 2014 02:24AM | |
| Bright Young Things: Book on the Murphy's | 5 | 13 | Aug 04, 2014 12:49PM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: Bella's 2016 Challenges | 5 | 45 | Jan 21, 2016 04:15PM | |
| Bright Young Things: What book have you just finished? | 673 | 249 | Sep 17, 2017 11:00AM | |
| Bright Young Things: What are you currently reading? | 928 | 281 | Sep 17, 2017 12:01PM | |
| Bright Young Things: New Discoveries | 872 | 322 | Feb 06, 2019 04:45PM | |
| Reading the 20th ...: Kindle offers (2020) | 771 | 98 | Jan 03, 2021 10:49PM |
Lost Generation
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In the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term 'lost generation' to describe the group of ...more
The End of Your Life Book Club
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— last activity Jul 31, 2014 12:48AM
Meaningful books and the impact they have on our lives. When my mother was dying of pancreatic cancer, I would often go with her to chemo, and we wou ...more
Biography
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— last activity Jan 27, 2015 03:26PM
A group for avid readers and writers of biography
