Tag: historical fiction
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Book Review: The Emperor, The Cross, and the Goat by Eliade Moldovan
A couple of years ago, I read Helena by Evelyn Waugh, which is another book that draws from the time of Emperor Constantine. When I saw that The Emperor, The Cross, and the Goat was also set in this era, I was immediately intrigued…
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Book Review: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This was one of my most anticipated releases of 2025. Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a couple of my favorite books. When I saw that Atmosphere was going to be set in the 1980s space program, I was ecstatic. With this excitement, I forgot that this would likely be a romance. I was still keen…
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Book Review: Maria von Trapp and Her Musical Family by Cheri Blomquist
Earlier this year, I read Maria by Michelle Moran and loved it so much. I felt starved for more of the Von Trapp Family. I particularly wanted to read more about their time in America. I’d purchased this book a couple of years ago and had forgotten about it until I read Maria. This book covered a lot of…
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Book Review: The Banned Books of Berlin by Daisy Wood
This is the third book I’ve read by Daisy Wood, so I was confident that I would enjoy it. Although in general, I’ve lost some of my taste for historical fiction with a past and present timeline, I’ve grown fond of the way this author writes it. I found the modern storyline stood out this…
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Book Review: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf since I read Chester Nez’s memoir Code Talker. Joseph Bruchac’s Code Talker is similar in the sense that the main character in this book lives a similar experience as Cheater Nez, however, this is a fictional account, and aside from the general Navajo experience during this time period, there is…
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Book Review: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
In the early 1960s, a young Mi’kmaq girl goes missing while her family is in Maine working as berry pickers. Her brother Joe, the last person to see her and who had left her sitting alone on a rock, will feel the impact of this day for the rest of his life…
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Top 5: Favorite reads of 2025 (so far)
The first half of 2025 has been such a fantastic year of books for me! I feel like this list may as well drop the ‘so far’ tag because I can’t imagine any books that will be able to top the reading experiences I had with these books. This list only includes fiction books. Nonfiction…
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Book Review: Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club by Mary-Jane Riley
Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club is the first book in a new series set post-World War II in the early days of the Cold War. An intriguing era, for sure!…
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Book Review: The Tapestry of Time by Kate Heartfield
This book was a new venture for me. I read a lot of historical fiction, but I’ve never read one with a paranormal edge to it. I was intrigued because clairvoyance sounded like it would add an interesting element to a World War II story…
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Book Review: The Lamplighter’s Bookshop by Sophie Austin
It’s not often that I read books set at the turn of the 20th Century. I forget what a cozy era this can be in books. Add a bookshop and you’ve got the makings of a perfect rainy day read…