Historical Fiction
Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Multi-tasking is the art of performing more than one task at a single time, but one should only consider herself a successful multi-tasker when she is able to combine activities she truly loves. For me, I feel a sense of multi-...
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
n the winter of 1926-7, the grey skies above the mighty Mississippi opened their veins and unleashed a torrent of rain, the likes of which had never been seen before and have not been seen since. The deluge lasted too long, and...
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Eighteen-year-old Rose Justice has been flying planes since she was twelve. Flying was her life back in Pennsylvania, though she was also a high school student, a Girl Scout, a poet, and a typical American teenager growing up d...
Review: Longbourn by Jo Baker
Jane Austen meets Downton Abbey is the crude shorthand, but Longbourn by Jo Baker, a new take on the Pride and Prejudice story, is so much more than that. Like so many, I fell in love with the 1995 BBC production of Pride and P...
Review: A Man of Parts by David Lodge
It’s a tribute to David Lodge’s writing skill that I found this novel absorbing and poignant even though I’ve never read anything by H.G. Wells and have no particular interest in him. As a biographical novel about a well-known ...
Book Review: Above All Things by Tanis Rideout
Let’ get this out of the way first. I won’t lie. Part of the reason I picked up this book is that since we both have the same last name, I can read the praise on the outside back cover (“Rideout has that all-t...
A Wandering Warrior by Harry E. Gilleland, Jr.
In the latest book from Harry E. Gilleland, Jr. the prolific novelist and poet revisits the genre of historical fiction, this time with a tale set in twelfth-century England. It’s a tough world of ruffians, duels, and political...
The Madman’s Daughter: Guest Review
We are happy to have Sierra Klein here to do a guest review on The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd. Take a look and don’t forget to give Sierra some comments on her review! This book was awesome! That’s all I r...
Diviners by Libba Bray
Ever Played With a Ouiji Board? The characters from this book probably should not have! The Diviners by Libba Bray is set in prohibition era New York City, where Evie O’Neil has been sent due to some scandal in her home t...
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