I've finished up several reads all at once, and since two of them were quick reads I don't want to devote a lot of review time to, you get the digest version of those plus one nonfiction book that is worthy of a bit more notice. Synopsis from Goodreads: This seminal period of British history… Continue reading Book Reviews
Tag: Fall Into Reading Challenge 2021
Book Review: Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
Synopsis from Goodreads: The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henry’s wife is lost to a long illness. But the crowded, glittering resort is far from peaceful, especially when the lifeless body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered in the bedchamber of none… Continue reading Book Review: Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
Book Review: What She Ate
Synopsis from Goodreads: A culinary historian’s short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking—what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.It’s a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship… Continue reading Book Review: What She Ate
Book Review: Vespertine
Synopsis from Goodreads: Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who trade whispers about her… Continue reading Book Review: Vespertine
Book Review: The Bear
Synopsis from Goodreads: In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches his daughter how to fish and hunt… Continue reading Book Review: The Bear
Book Review – The Book of Magic
Synopsis from Goodreads: The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven… Continue reading Book Review – The Book of Magic
November TBR
As November is creeping up on us, here's my hopeful to-be-read list for the month. I'm continuing reading for the Fall Into Reading Challenge so those prompts will be my primary focus, but I'm also keeping up with the Completely Melanie challenge and I'm going to participate in Nonfiction November, with some doubling up of… Continue reading November TBR
Book Review – Under the Whispering Door
Synopsis from Goodreads: When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run… Continue reading Book Review – Under the Whispering Door
Book Review: The Invention of Wings
Synopsis from Goodreads: Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by… Continue reading Book Review: The Invention of Wings
Book Review: Once Upon a Wardrobe
Synopsis from Goodreads: Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. She prefers the dependability of facts—except for one: the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn’t have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a copy of… Continue reading Book Review: Once Upon a Wardrobe
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