Book Review All the Perfect Days by Michael ThompsonAdult Fiction | Magical Realism It’s been a long time since I’ve devoured a book in a single sitting, but this magical realism novel was just the read to break that streak! Charlie Knight is a small-town doctor with a plan to escape. He dreams of something […]
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Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker’s childhood home, Rockfall House. Returning home and taking up a teaching position at the local college, Estella searches for answers to her mother’s mysterious
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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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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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
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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Book Review Katherine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson WoodHistorical Fiction | Fiction We’ve all heard about the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur. But have you heard of their sister, Katherine? Orville and Wilbur may have won the race to the first sustained, controlled flight but they couldn’t have done it without their little sister.
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Book Review The Specimen by Jaima FixsenHistorical Fiction | Mystery Amongst Dr. Burnett’s collection of oddities and medical specimens sits a heart in a jar. To anyone else, this juvenile heart with its damaged mitral valve would simply be another exhibit to gawk at. But for Isabel Tait, a woman whose son has been missing
Book Review The Woman With No Name by Audrey Blake Historical Fiction | WWII Audrey Blake is admittedly one of my favorite authors, which means that I didn’t even bother reading the description before requesting my advance copy of The Woman with No Name. And this newest WWII-set novel by Audrey Blake certainly did NOT
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Book Review The Lost Van Gogh by Jonathan SantloferMystery | Historical Fiction | Art Reader’s Thoughts: Having enjoyed the author’s first book, The Last Mona Lisa, I was very excited to receive a surprise copy of The Lost Van Gogh from the publisher. In this sequel, we once again find ourselves in the world of
