Forthcoming release – September 3, 2019 Reading Ann Cleeves’ latest novel, The Long Call, the first in the series Two Rivers, brought me back to Shetland Islands. I watched the series on Netflix and absolutely loved it though it did take me a bit to…
The Queen’s Daughter is the first book that I have read about Joan, the daughter of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of the Aquitaine. It is the world where England, France and Toulouse battle each other for lands that are taken and retaken from…
Although not as good as Larson’s The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck deals with a little known era, at least to this reader, Edwardian England before WWI. Besides mystery which drew me in, the science and history behind the beginnings of wireless communication pulled…
Set in 1739, Jennifer Reinoehl’s The Inconvenient Widow is a blend of Christian inspirational, historical fiction and Jane Austen romance. There are some elements of suspense and mystery but the intensity and amount of on screen violence, or the quickness of pace critical for romantic…
I obtained an ARC of Katherine Reay’s The Brontё Plot through NetGalley because the title made me curious and because Bronte’s Plot was a book about books. As it turned out, The Brontё Plot captured my imagination for another reason, which goes hand in hand…
Sarum in Salisbury, England is not for the faint of heart. One of the hard back editions has 912 pages. I listened to it through Audible—45+ hours—of pure enjoyment, and that is hard to say about any book that is 500+ pages. The reader…
Categories: Classics, Literary Fiction, Women’s Villette by Charlotte Bronte is a Jane Austenesque type story. The narrator-protagonist is Lucy Snow. It is her life story…well, half of it. She’s around twelve when the story begins at her god-mother’s home in England where she is staying with…
Reading Brooks’ Year of Wonders was a hard but insightful look into how a pandemic wreaks havoc and misery in a community. As a lover of history, it was nice to follow JoAnn Butler’s A Reputed Wife with this novel. Both novels are set in…
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