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Pride and Prejudice
Pages: 181 📖 Year Published: 1831 🕰️ Days to Complete: 32 Author: Jane Austen was born in the south of England in 1775. Austen was the youngest of 7 children. She and her sister attended schools from time to time, including Oxford, but most of her education came from reading. Austen had written most of her more successful works prior to the age of 22, was not published until she was 35, and did not enjoy much recognition during her life. She died at the age of 41 in the sam
Sep 1, 20252 min read


Under the Tuscan Sun
Pages: 280 📖 Year Published: 1996 🕰️ Days to Complete: 17 Author: Frances Mayes was born and raised in the American south and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University where she also earned her masters degree. She is most-known for this book but has several novels and other books about her adventures in Italy and travels around the world. She divides her time between North Carolina and Cortona, Italy and has one daughter. Three words to describe this read:
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Pages: 368 📖 Year Published: 2018 🕰️ Days to Complete: 12 Author: Delia Owens, born in Georgia, has almost always been in or near nature. From a young age, she loved writing and was often outdoors forming a strong connection to the land in North Carolina. When she grew older, she decided to major in science and earned a degree in zoology from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. from the University of California in Davis. For years Owens studied wildlife in Africa with
Jul 1, 20252 min read


South of Broad
Pages : 512 📖 Year Published : 2009 🕰️ Days to Complete : 31 Author: Pat Conroy seems to be a person made of bits and pieces of his own novels and memoirs; that or his writing is made up of bits and pieces of his life. Whichever makes more sense. He was born in the south but had quite a bit of experience living in other locations due to his father’s work for the military. He also attended military school, the same one mentioned in this book in Charleston, South Carolina. Ev
Jul 1, 20252 min read


Honeymoon
Pages: 282 📖 Year Published: 2001 🕰️ Days to Complete: 9 Author: While Amy Jenkins had success publishing Honeymoon as her debut novel, she is more widely-known as a screenwriter. She created and wrote for the British TV show This Life , wrote and produced the movie Elephant Juice , and wrote Daphne , a dramatized documentary on Daphne du Maurier. She is married to journalist Jonathan Heawood and they have one son together. Three words to describe this read: Comic - There w
Jun 1, 20252 min read





