Brona's Books

Sketch of Laura as Venus C1444 Early in chapter six of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the suitor, Pietro Cres...

Sometimes you read a book, or discover an author, that opens up a new world to you. Or a world that you knew existed, but one that doesn...

Sometimes a reading experience is not as straight forward as you might first think. There are some books that demand more of the reader. The...

By all accounts Megan Hess' books about fashion should not be my thing at all. I'm not into fashion, haute couture or otherwise. I...

I've had a peculiar day. People have been sharing their tales of woe and weirdness with me all day. Acquaintances, not quite stra...

Pompeii by Robert Harris is my first bookclub read for 2018.  I confess that Robert Harris is not a usual go-to author for me, alth...

It has taken me a while but here I am at the end of the Ferrante tetralogy. With so much hype and frenzy surrounding the series and auth...

I decided to finish off The Apothecary trilogy this past weekend during Dewey's 24 hr Readathon. It was a great readathon choice. ...

My reactions to book three of Ferrante's Neapolitan series are a lot more confused than with her previous two books. I've just com...

It's not easy to review a book that has had so much love and so much attention already heaped onto it. How do you add to the praise, o...

Thanks to Andi's #15in31 challenge this month I have been ripping through all those half-finished books lurking in my backpack and by my...

It almost feels a bit redundant to write a review about My Brilliant Friend , since nearly everyone I know in blogger land has already read...