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The Bog Wife
The Bog Wife
by Kay Chronister
Mixed Genres (8/11/2024)
I enjoyed most of The Bog Wife, but struggled to finish it. I flew through the first 3/4 of the book which I perceived to be about family truths. Things you believe to be true due to the stories you are told growing up. The Haddesley children are raised with stories of a …more
Daughters of Shandong
Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
Page Turning Historical Fiction (11/6/2023)
I have read other books about the Chinese Revolution, so I was not surprised by the brutality of the treatment that many of the Chinese landowners faced. The Ang family are wealthy landowners. They are warned that the Nationalists are losing the war and they should escape …more
Banyan Moon
Banyan Moon: A Novel
by Thao Thai
Banyan Moon (5/21/2023)
Banyan Moon features three generations of Vietnamese women and their many broken relationships along the way. Thao Thai explores many different types of relationships in this book- primarily romantic, sibling, female friendship, and mother/daughter/grandmother. The central …more
Stealing
Stealing: A Novel
by Margaret Verble
Stealing (12/15/2022)
I was excited to be offered this book because I was recently in Utah on a Navajo Indian guided tour of Monument Valley. He talked to us about how his grandfather was taken from his home and put into a Christian boarding school. This book was very eye opening on how cruelly …more
Natural History
Natural History: Stories
by Andrea Barrett
Natural History (8/8/2022)
Natural History features women quietly leading the way in science since the late 1800s. The stories feature various female scientists in various times in their lives. In one story they are young, starting their career and falling in love (or not) and in another they are …more
The Latinist
The Latinist: A Novel
by Mark Prins
The Latinist (10/24/2021)
The novel, The Latinist, is a modern day retelling of the story of Daphne and Apollo. The story line is very engaging as Tessa learns that her trusted mentor, Chris Eccles, has written a very unflattering letter of recommendation for her as she searches for post-doctorate …more
The Sunset Route
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by Carrot Quinn
The Sunset Route (7/12/2021)
The Sunset Route, by Carrot Quinn, will undoubtedly be compared to Educated, The Glass Castle and Hillbilly Elegy. Carrot is abused and neglected by her schizophrenic mother, has a father who has given up all parental rights, and has very cold and abusive grandparents. Her …more
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
by Sara Seager
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir (7/10/2020)
I would highly recommend this book to people with an interest in space exploration and anybody who has suffered the loss of a loved one (primarily a spouse). I have not lost my spouse, thankfully, but I really found the space exploration portion of the book to be …more
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
Never Have I Ever (4/29/2019)
Never Have I Ever met people like those that are in this book! This book is suspenseful and completely unpredictable; however, I found myself struggling with the plot development for the main characters. Many of their actions/reactions seemed off and it took away from my …more
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel
Travelling Cat Chronicles (5/14/2018)
I recommend this book for anybody who has always known that their pets were smarter than most people. Nana, the cat, has plenty of sarcastic comments throughout the book to keep you entertained; comments that truly fitting of a feline! This book is also a great blueprint …more
The Scribe of Siena
The Scribe of Siena
by Melodie Winawer
The Scribe of Siena (4/25/2017)
The Scribe of Sienna is highly recommended for fans of historical fiction. The book moves back in forth in time from the modern day Tuscan city of Siena, Italy to Siena, Italy in 1347. I am a huge fan of the Outlander series, so my expectations were high; however, I found …more
Manderley Forever
Manderley Forever
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Manderley Forever (1/6/2017)
I have been intrigued with Daphne Du Maurier for years as several of my favorite authors have name her as one of their biggest writing influences. What a fascinating woman! Tatiana de Rosnay does an excellent job writing this biography as if Daphne du Maurier is actually …more
The Comet Seekers
The Comet Seekers
by Helen Sedgwick
The Comet Seekers (8/31/2016)
Fans of Sarah Addison Allen will love this book! It has a great magical quality about it. The characters are well developed. This book is a beautiful love story that develops as if destined to be from the beginning. The male main character, Francois, is raised by a single …more
Darling Days
Darling Days: A Memoir
by iO Tillett Wright
Darling Days (4/13/2016)
I chose this book because I viewed the "50 Shades of Gay" TED Talk by iO Tillet Wright. I was amazed by the story of her childhood. This book would appeal to readers who enjoyed the The Glass Castle. Darling Days is memoir about a child that thrives in spite of her parents …more
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
by Melanie Benjamin
The Swans of Fifth Avenue (10/29/2015)
This novel appealed to me on many levels. From a historical fiction perspective, the story includes many very famous socialites of the 1950s and 60s that I had never heard of. The book took me longer than usual to read because I spent half of my time reading and half of it …more
The Wild Girl
The Wild Girl
by Kate Forsyth
The Wild Girl (4/20/2015)
The Wild Girl was an exceptionally well written novel about Dortchen Wild, wife of Wilhelm Grimm, of the Brother's Grimm. The story will appeal lovers of historical fiction, historical romance, as well as anybody who might enjoy finding the origins of many of their …more
House of Echoes
House of Echoes: A Novel
by Brendan Duffy
House of Echoes (2/23/2015)
House of Echoes was quite a page turning thriller about a somewhat dysfunctional family that moves to a small town to bring peace and order to their lives. This small town is definitely not as it seems from the surface, and their problems become much worse instead of better. …more
First Frost
First Frost
by Sarah Addison Allen
First Frost (11/7/2014)
First Frost is creative and beautifully written. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of reading about the Waverly family and the charmed and magical world they live in. The book description entails a "magical stranger" who I felt added nothing to the story. For more than …more
The Quick
The Quick
by Lauren Owen
The Quick (5/5/2014)
The Quick transports you directly to London England, in the late 1800s. This book will appeal to anybody who enjoys historical fiction with a supernatural twist. Readers who aren't strong fans of the vampire genre of books will even enjoy this book. If vampires did exist – …more
House of Bathory
House of Bathory
by Linda Lafferty
House of Bathory (12/30/2013)
The House of Bathory story line revolves around the historical figure, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who lived and brutally murdered over 600 women in the early 1600s in Slovakia. Ms Lafferty tells the horrifying and fascinating story of Countess Bathory as well as giving a …more
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