Reviews by Tag: 1920s

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The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Sep 30, 2024

The classic and captivating novel by esteemed author F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is no stranger to the limelight of “best novels of all time”. Set in the roaring twenties, we are immediately taken to a place of lux and glamor of New York’s elite, amidst the Great Depression. This story will have you wondering what exactly the “American Dream” is all about? Main protagonist Nick Carraway is a simple man from the midwest, moving to New York to work at a big time company.

Teen Review
The Great Gatsby book cover

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★

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TeenReviewer11
Sep 25, 2024

The Great Gatsby is a classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book follows the life of Jay Gatsby through the narrator Nick Carraway. Nick has moved next to Gatsby and gets a glimpse of the glamor and complexities of the rich. Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, and readers see themes of romance, obsession, and the tensions between the rich and poor through this novel set in the roaring twenties.

Teen Review
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Aug 30, 2024

The Great Gastby is set in the roaring 1920s and follows Nick, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan throughout. Jay Gatsby is a mysterious character who seems to have a lot of money, lives in a nice house and isn’t involved in many of the parties he throws. Daisy Buchanan is a young woman who used to be in love with Jay but is now married to Tom Buchanan. The story was really interesting and enjoyable when it was talking about Jay’s infatuation with Daisy.

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The Radium Girls book cover

The Radium Girls

By Kate Moore
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anna S.
Nov 20, 2023

Toxic, radioactive material infecting girls, mostly teenagers, daily, without the girls knowing about it. In The Radium Girls, the horrors that girls who worked in radium factories faced in the 1920s in Orange, New Jersey, and Ottawa, Illinois. These factories used radium to create watches that had glowing dials, and the young girls working there painted these dials using a method which involved them putting the paintbrushes in their mouths.

Teen Review
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Ken
Jul 3, 2023

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a group of high class, wealthy people who live in Long Island, New York. Nick Carraway moves there to learn more about bond business. His next-door neighbor, Jay Gatsby, is a mysterious man who throws parties every Saturday night.  Mr. Gatsby has feelings for Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s cousin. Daisy and Gatsby have a history, but now she is married. Gatsby will do anything in his power to get her back. 

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These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

These Violent Delights

By Chloe Gong
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Lisa J.
Jan 25, 2022

1920s Shanghai is not a place for the fainthearted. The city is split down the middle between two gangs, the Scarlet Gang and the White Flowers, and the streets are perpetually stained crimson with blood. 18-year-old Juliette Cai, the heir of the Scarlet Gang and a former American flapper, holds a personal grudge against the White Flowers — after all, its heir gifted her with a love laced with betrayal. But there’s much more to worry about besides the blood feud — foreigners overstepping their bounds, an impending civil war, and something more sinister in the shadows.

Teen Review
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Saathwika A.
Oct 21, 2021

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is romantic fiction.  Nick Carraway, who narrates the book, is Daisy Buchanan’s cousin. Daisy, who is married to Tom Buchanan, lives in the East Egg. Nick’s neighbor, Jay Gatsby, was once closely acquainted with Daisy many years ago. Whether or not he will win Daisy’s love back is what Jay is thoroughly worried about. Can he succeed, or will Daisy leave him for Tom?

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