Brooklyn Bugle » Birdsong http://brooklynbugle.com On the web because paper is expensive Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:10:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Downton Abbey and Bookshttp://brooklynbugle.com/2012/01/12/downton-abbey-and-books/ http://brooklynbugle.com/2012/01/12/downton-abbey-and-books/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:44:43 +0000 http://brooklynbugle.com/?p=11224 As someone who grew up reading classics after watching the Masterpiece Theatre versions (“Cousin Bette,” in particular, got me started on Balzac) I was very taken by today’s article in the New York Times about publishers efforts to tie new releases into the series. Naturally, I was looking for my own favorite World War I novels. The best one not listed is “Birdsong” by Sebastian Faulks, about a British soldier’s affair with a French woman but highly memorable for its description of a sapper‘s life in the trenches.

What’s your favorite? Let us know in the comments. Have a book you want me to know about? Email me at asbowie@gmail.com. I also blog about metrics at asbowie.blogspot.com.

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