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Follow Me to Africa

Book Review Follow Me to Africa by Penny HawHistorical Fiction I’ve absolutely adored Peggy Haw’s past books (The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at the Wheel) and was so excited to see another biographical fiction about an influential, and perhaps lesser-known, historical woman. Follow Me to Africa explores the life of Mary Leakey, a […]

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Dinosaurs: Lift the Flap

Book Review Dinosaurs Lift the Flap by Taffy TalesChildren’s Board Book | Flap Book For the past four years, we’ve had a bit of a dinosaur invasion happening at our house. With a four-year-old who is absolutely obsessed with dinos, the kids’ room is packed with Jurassic toys and reads. So when I saw this

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Lunar New Year 2025 Mini-Challenge

Lunar New Year 2025 Mini-Challenge Surprise! Our very first mini-challenge of 2025 is here! (It is also, the first-ever time we’ve released a mini in the month of January. More details on that below.) We wish you a very happy Lunar New Year and hope that this first mini-challenge of 2025 introduces you to some

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The Girls of the Glimmer Factory

Book Review The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer CoburnHistorical Fiction | WWII | Holocaust A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Jennifer Coburn’s novel Cradles of the Reich, a dark story centred around the Lebensborn maternity homes in Nazi Germany. The book has stuck with me to this day, and I can’t

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The Kennedy Girl

Book Review The Kennedy Girl by Julia Bryan ThomasHistorical Fiction When a mysterious stranger offers Mia a job modelling in Paris for the House of Rousseau, she takes a risk and sets off for what she hopes is a better life. But not everything is as it seems, and soon Mia finds herself pulled beyond

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A Language of Dragons

Book Review A Language of Dragons by S. F WilliamsonFantasy | YA | Historical Fiction Welcome to Bletchley Park… with dragons. It was this line alone that hooked me on this debut YA fantasy novel from S.F. Williamson. A genre-blending book set in London 1923, A Language of Dragons gives us an alternate-reality look into

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The Secret War of Julia Child

Book Review The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. ChambersHistorical Fiction | WWII We all know Julia Child. But what about Julia McWilliams — the thirty-year-old who took a job working for America’s first espionage agency in WWII? The woman she was before she met her husband, Paul Child, and before she mastered

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Read It, Watch It 2025 Challenge

Read It, Watch It Challenge A 2025 Bonus Challenge! Have you read the book? Now, let’s watch the movie! Our “Read It, Watch It” is an optional, bonus challenge connected to the prompts you’re already reading for our 2025 challenge. We’ve assigned a prompt for each quarter of 2025. Match a book to that prompt

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Knife Skills for Beginners

Book Review Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando MurrinCozy Mystery | Food When it comes to cozy mysteries, food-based stories are one of my favourite themes. And this debut mystery from Orlando Murrin makes it clear that the author knows his way around a kitchen! Knife Skills for Beginners features a grieving chef, Paul Delamere,

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