Celebrating a love of all things reading and writing
There are a lot of books coming out in February with some of my favorite categories: WWII, myths and fairy tales, and middle grade February 7 Goodreads Synopsis: 1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post sponsored by The Artsy Reader Girl. Each month I post a review of my favorite book of the month. Today's topic is New-to-me authors I discovered in 2022. I realized many of them last year were by authors I hadn't read before. I've posted links for my reviews;... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is weekly post sponsored by The Artsy Reader Girl . This week's topic is 2023 reading g Goodreads goal: read 85 books. My total for this year was 82, so it seemed like a realistic goal Read at least one book a month that has been on my tbr pile for years.... Continue Reading →
Thank you to Netgalley for providing with a free ebook copy of this title in exchange for an honest review. Description: Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth?The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries... Continue Reading →
This is a little delayed because I had some issues with exporting my goodreads information to storygraph: Read 72 books, 25,073 pages This is typical of my reading since I read a lot of romance and women's fiction, which qualifies as emotional and lighthearted. I'm not really sure how they determine pace, but comparing this... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post sponsored by artsyreadergirl for people who love books and lists. The topic this week is favorite books of 2022. Note: these are books I read in 2022, not published in 2022. I've included links to my reviews. 10 My Review 9 My Review 8 My Review 7 My... Continue Reading →
"Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it." — Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War Goodreads Synopsis Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a... Continue Reading →
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