Book Report: Looking for a home
Odie is a twelve-year-old storyteller and orphan looking for a home. As the reminiscent and therefore omniscient narrator of This … Continue reading Book Report: Looking for a home
Tag: historical fiction
Book Report: Start with one grand old house and one evil step-mother
“Thinking about the past impeded my efforts to be decent in the present.” Continue reading Book Report: Start with one grand old house and one evil step-mother
Book Report: To read or not to read
This novel is stylistically challenging. Each of the characters— fictional and historic– speaks or relates the speech of another without much connecting tissue. Continue reading Book Report: To read or not to read
Book Report: Dive into this tale
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock I loved this luscious, lyrical, and somewhat bawdy historical fiction. Debut author, Imogen Hermes Gowar … Continue reading Book Report: Dive into this tale
Book report: A lusty, time-traveling romance
While my daughter has been a fan of the STARZ TV series for a while and I’d known of the … Continue reading Book report: A lusty, time-traveling romance
Book Report: Just one kiss
“It Only Takes a Kiss” is the second in Wilma Counts’ “Once Upon a Bride” trilogy, in which she gives … Continue reading Book Report: Just one kiss
Book Report: Another political wife who stood by her man
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie For months the Hamilton soundtrack quickened … Continue reading Book Report: Another political wife who stood by her man
Book report: The power of the book
The People of the Book Australian archivist Hannah Heath has come to Sarajevo to investigate and conserve a priceless text, … Continue reading Book report: The power of the book
Book Report: Women in war
The Alice Network I told myself I wouldn’t go back to the dark and desperate world of WWII Europe’s deprivations. … Continue reading Book Report: Women in war
Book report: Do you really want to know?
On its surface, this is a coming of age story. It’s told in the lively and distinct voices of three … Continue reading Book report: Do you really want to know?
