Setting Archive : 1930s
(I try to break stuff down by place and time. Doesnt always work but there you go)
To kill a mockingbird [based on the book]
In a small town in Alabama in the 1930′s Atticus Finch is working hard to raise his two children; his […]
Posted on 3 May 2014 | By Fence | 1 response
Made for each other
Up and coming lawyer John Mason has just returned from taking a deposition in Boston. But work wasn’t all that […]
Posted on 26 April 2014 | By Fence | Leave a response
The Book Thief
At the end of the nineteen thirties in Germany a little girl travelled with her mother and brother on the […]
Posted on 5 April 2014 | By Fence | 8 responses
Address Unknown
Reread for my book club. And on second read it is just as powerful, if not more so than on […]
Posted on 20 March 2014 | By Fence | 3 responses
Light in August
Lena Grove is looking for her man. The father of her unborn child. He told her that he’d go ahead, […]
Posted on 24 August 2013 | By Fence
What Doctor Gottlieb saw
the Little Red Reviewer posted her review of Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis today and in it mentioned this short […]
Posted on 24 August 2013 | By Fence
Silverfin
Book 1 in the Young Bond series. James Bond has just started Eaton College. It’s a huge change, so many […]
Posted on 17 October 2012 | By Fence
Rin Tin Tin
The life and legend of the world’s most famous dog While serving during World War I serviceman Lee Duncan came […]
Posted on 21 April 2012 | By Fence
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
I recently posted a link to some of the nebula nominees that are available to read online. And today I […]
Posted on 25 February 2012 | By Fence | 1 response
I capture the castle
Cassandra Mortmain’s father is a famous writer; unfortunatley he has been suffering from writer’s block for years. Her mother is dead, but she has a lovely stepmother now in Topaz. She also has a younger brother Thomas, and and older sister, Rose. And then there is Stephen, who has grown up with them, not forgetting the dog Heloise and the cat Abelard. They live in a ruin of a castle in England, and have no income. Which means no money for clothes, repairs, rent, or food. They have sold everything worth selling. And then the two Cotton brothers arrive on the scene.
Posted on 18 June 2011 | By Fence | 6 responses
The King’s Speech
The wireless changed a great many things. Before, all that was required of a monarch was that he look the […]
Posted on 14 January 2011 | By Fence | 8 responses
When we were orphans
ISBN: 057120516x ; Other Reviews The narrator of this book, Christopher Banks, is a renowned detective in the 1930′s. One […]
