#ThrowbackThursday. October 2011 Part 1

I've been doing Throwback Thursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started. One of my blogger friends always posts the reviews of one month but that would be too much. So, these are my reviews from the first part of October 2011.

White, E.B. "Charlotte’s Web" - 1952
A lovely memory of the times I used to read books with my children. A great story about friendship (between a pig and a spider) and how someone is willing to do something for the good of the other even though they won't get anything back in return

Bragg, Melvyn "The Soldier’s Return" - 1999

This is the story of an ex-corporal returning home from Burma in the spring of 1946. His wife is anxiously awaiting his return and his son who was a baby when he left and is now six years old cannot really remember him. 

Bragg, Melvyn "A Son of War" - 2001

A continuation of "The Soldier's Return". Whereas the first story was all about the soldier Sam, this one tells us more about the rest of the family. It is hard for the family to get back to normal.

Austen, Jane "The Watsons" - 1803/05

This is an unfinished copy. At the end, there is a short summary of what Jane Austen told her sister how she would have wanted to finish the novel.
Emma Watson returns home after 14 years spent with a beloved aunt, whose re-marriage has caused a significant change in Emma's circumstances.

Falcones, Ildefonso "The Hand of Fatima" (Spanish: La mano de Fátima) - 2009

1564, Hernando Ruiz, an illegitimate child of a Muslim woman who was raped by a Catholic priest, incorporates both cultures but isn't accepted by either. He spends his whole life trying to bring the two religions together, sacrificing almost everything along the way. From the uprising of the Moriscos in Granada to the expulsion of all Muslims from Spain.

McCarthy, Pete "McCarthy’s Bar" - 2000

If you love Ireland, you have to love this book. The author portrays it in such a funny but nice way, it surely makes you feel you would like to go there right away - if you don't already feel this way.

Read my original reviews, for the links click on the titles.