Celebrating a love of all things reading and writing
Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give. Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea Goodreads Synopsis While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in... Continue Reading →
She knew that love was the answer, but it was more than love- or rather more than the marshmallow kind of love that people understood when they thought of the word. Sometimes love meant you had to take the hard line and had to force people to do things they didn't want to do. Dale... Continue Reading →
“All this time, I've been afraid of my ability, when instead I should have been regarding it as a treasured weapon.” Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones Goodreads synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone... Continue Reading →
Under the Whispering Door I've been waiting for this one. I finished reading it on April 2, but already knew it was going to be my favorite read of the month. It's not just my favorite read for April, it's one of my favorite reads ever. Goodreads Synopsis When a reaper comes to collect Wallace... Continue Reading →
Goodreads Synopsis: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when... Continue Reading →
#SixforSunday is a meme hosted by A Little But A Lot. This week's topic is books to get people out of reading slumps. I tried to think of a different reasons someone might be in a reading slump when choosing my recommendations. Some of them are just really fun and that's what we need when we're in... Continue Reading →
The Pirate Vishnu Goodreads Synopsis: A century-old treasure map of San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Sacred riches from India. Two murders, one hundred years apart. And a love triangle... Historian Jaya Jones has her work cut out for her. 1906. Shortly before the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Pirate Vishnu strikes the San Francisco Bay. An ancestor... Continue Reading →
The Queen's Fortune Goodreads Synopsis: As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone and it’s fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy,... Continue Reading →
Dial A for Aunties Goodreads synopsis: When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is... 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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