Dreamers of the Day, (Paperback)

from spurnell

This is not a book I would have picked up had I not received a copy through the Early Reviewers Club. As it turns out, I really enjoyed it and have passed it along to others who have enjoyed it as well. What I liked most about the book was Agnes. She struck me as unusual heroine with her own uniq...

from mdwilliams

While the idea of a middle-aged spinster from Cleveland might be so easily accidentally find herself carousing with such luminaries of the age as T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Gertrude Bell may on the surface seem flimsy and unbelievable, somehow it comes across as perfectly natural and al...

from xmaystarx

I enjoyed this book mainly for 2 reasons - the characters and the knowledge I gained. Agnes is a great character and her transformation from a feeble woman with an over-bearing mother into a self-confidant world traveler was highly entertaining. I loved the descriptions in the beginning of the bo...

from Ciruelo

A bookish spinister, after the deaths of her domineering mother, absent brother, and beloved sister, travels to the mideast, and by chance and family acquaintance, meets T.E. Lawrence and is an observer to the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference. Maria Doria Russell writes an absorbing story. Her narrato...

from selkins

An exploration of WWI and the US role in it and the aftermath, through the vehicle of Agnes, a fictional teacher who survives the great influenza epidemic that killed so many, travels to Egypt, and interacts with famous people. Agnes is naive and fairly passive in her interactions with people, th...