Tag: historical fiction
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Book Review: Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
I saw this in the bookstore shortly after I finished reading The End of the Affair. I was entranced with Graham Greene’s writing. This book has a variety of different stories…
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Book Review: Til Morning by Bonnie Hearn Hill & Larry Hill
I’m a big fan of Dorothy Kilgallen and have read extensively about her life and her career. I’m so thrilled that there are a couple of novels inspired by her. This one focuses on her affair with singer Johnnie Ray. Though not a shining or defining aspect of her life, it’s not surprising that writers…
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Book Review: Anywhen by Beth Duke
’m new to the world of time travel fiction and I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the concepts. Anywhen sounded like a perfect book for me to delve deeper into this type of story as I love this mid-20th century era. Woodstock is such an interesting place and time to explore…
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Book Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Carlota has spent most of her life in a sort of isolation. Her father’s estate provides enough companionship and entertainment that she can’t picture her life anywhere else. She sees herself inheriting the estate someday and taking care of her father’s experiments — the hybrids…
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Book Review: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
After years of feeling intimidated by this book, I finally felt I was in a place where I wanted to pick up this book and give it a try. My grandmother loved this book and toward the end of her life, we connected a bit through books. I regret not picking up Don Quixote in her lifetime,…
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Book Review: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Even though this book is a mere 160 pages, I took months to get through it — in a good way! I read Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory last year and the experience hadn’t been what I’d hoped it would be. I lowered my expectations this time and tried not to make any assumptions about…
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Book Review: The Secret Pianist by Andie Newton
I read A Child for the Reich last year and I appreciate this author’s use of lesser-discussed nuances of the WWII time period. In The Secret Pianist, the use of carrier pigeons is one of the main focuses in correlation to Resistance work which I found intriguing…
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Book Review: California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
One glance at this book and I was sold on the summer vibes. The vibes delivered. As for the story itself, I was left with mixed feelings…
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Book Review: The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
I’m always excited to see which female in history Marie Benedict decides to write about. This time around, she’s writing about a group of women, namely Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Emma Orczy…
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Book Review: Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams
It’s been a while since a prologue gripped me as much as the beginning of Husbands & Lovers. 10/10 hook for sure. Had this book solely followed the modern storyline I think this could have been a five-star read…