Welcome to Wishlist Wednesday!
The concept is to post about one book from our wish lists that we can’t wait to read. Want to play? Here’s how:
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- Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
- Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it’s on your wishlist.
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My Wishlist Wednesday book is:
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
From Amazon:
The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.
For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.
Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.
Why do I want to read this?
I seem to be drawn to historical fiction lately, and I do love the 1920s/New York setting. I adored The Diviners by Libba Bray, which was a supernatural-tinged YA novel set in the same era. The Chaperone, with its hint of glamour and promise of empowerment for the lead female characters, sounds like both a great story about personal change and an exciting trip back to the roaring ’20s.
Have you read The Chaperone? What did you think? And what are you wishing for this week?
Quick note to Wishlist Wednesday bloggers: Come on back to Bookshelf Fantasies for Flashback Friday! Join me in celebrating the older gems hidden away on our bookshelves. See the introductory post for more details, and come back this Friday to add your flashback favorites!
I read this book last year and really enjoyed it. Hope you will like it too.
I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed! I’m really looking forward to it.
I loved the Chaperone. I hope that you love it just as much when you get a chance to read it.
Thanks! Until today, I didn’t know anyone else who’d read it!
I haven’t read this one, but I hope you get it soon.
My WW:
http://booksojourner.blogspot.com/2013/01/waiting-wishing-on-wednesday-perfect.html
Thanks, Jenny! And thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Sounds interesting, never heard of this book, but then again it’s not a genre I read. Hope you get it soon 🙂
My WW
Thanks, Ula! My fingers are kind of itching to go ahead and order a copy.
I don’t read a lot of historical fictions, but it’s one of the genres I’m trying to expand to 🙂 So this really has me interested!
Janina
My WW!
If you do end up exploring more historical fiction, let me know what you end up reading! I go through phases where I’m in this mood for this sort of thing, and always like to hear recommendations. Thanks for stopping by!
I’ve never heard of this book before. I hope you get to read it 🙂
Julie
Thanks! I hope so too.:) Thanks for stopping by.
Nice choice! 🙂
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I don’t think I’ve ever read a historical fiction, but this one sounds really interesting 🙂
Hope you enjoy it when you get it!
I have not heard of this one but, it sounds really interesting. Hope you enjoy it when you get it! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Never heard of this book. Not big historical fiction person though but I might have to check it out.
I really like the cover for this but I don’t think its my cup of tea, hope you get it soon!
Thanks for stopping by