Top Ten Books of the Decade | Claire Fenby

Jane Austen is wickedly funny and she often has a sense of humor that is like wicked but she just everytime she always manages to write a novel that cheers you up makes you think about things you know money and status but ties it all together in a beautiful love story

it is actually I think a really relevant book to read right now I think men who have a lot of wealth and privilege using women Foster's characterization of the Schlegel sisters is like they're my favorite family

it's a massive book it's a piece of kind of historical reimagining with magic it's framed in a kind of an 18th century narrative style and you have footnotes in illustrations and it is wickedly funny imaginative brilliantly written everything about it I love it

I think that Lily she was one of the best books ever written the way it creates its narrative kind of Nabokov crates Humbert Humberts own version of history I think is like genius

the characterization is perfect I think it's just one of those great novels that I read and instantly thought it's going to be a favorite

it has so much heart in this novel some people think that you knew also a cold writer actually I really disagree with that it is a novel I think everybody should read

it is heartbreaking like it physically hurts

I was completely transfixed with this novel I love historical fiction and I think the Essex serpent is one of the best

this is one of my favorite Woolf novels I'm a huge war fan already discussed that love her vision wolf has great heart her writing but there's all also like a stillness and a calmness

I love its intensity and I'm ready recently I read it again last year and I was completely struck by how amazing this novel is