While reading the story of the two anonymous lovers I was convinced that the woman had to be one of the Chase Sisters but kept me wondering which girl it truly was as the woman had qualities that each woman possessed. The semi sci-fi story of the Blind Assassin, which the novel gets its title […]
hydraulic fracturing: the forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, esp. to extract oil or gas. Fractures started out with so much potential but never came into fruition. We begin with the main character Frank talking about suicide running in his family and how he had struggled with it. Next […]
Flavia grows up just a little in each novel and in The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches it is evident that she has matured and felt like a parent dropping their child off for the first day of kindergarten. While some of the innocence is lost her skills in deduction have increased. This mystery series is […]
“Nash first saw her as an apparition, a gilt London trinket set down by mistake at a dusty crossroads three miles north of town.” I’m not a romance kind of girl. It’s mushy gushy and not my style. But I do like the regency era so thought I’d give An Untitled Lady a try. It […]
March is split in two, half being memories of years gone by, remembering the courting of Marmee, the births of their children and the March’s beliefs on slavery, even becoming conductors on the underground railroad. By putting their money where their mouth is, give a large sum of money to a fellow abolitionist to support […]
I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series growing up. Twenty years later, I still set aside time for Hallmark’s Little House on the Prairie Marathons and am just as enraptured by her books as I was at age eight. It recently came out the Laura’s daughter Rose may have been the steamroller behind the […]
With the exclusion that Josephine was married to Napoleon Bonaparte I knew next to nil about this historical figure. I instantly fell in love. The descriptions were vivid, the story sweeping, and immediately rooted for Josephine. She led a very interesting life with difficulties that could have caused her to roll into a ball and […]
The Secret Life of Bees was a little to touchy feely for me, all the hugging, praying,finding yourself crap was ya-ya sisterhood on a smaller scale. I found it extremely predictable i.e. Lily’s mother living with the “calender girls” May, June and August ten years prior. I really had to plow my way through the […]
I am a child of the 90s. I grew up on Rugrats, Clarissa Explains It All and Double Dare, in other words, I watched Nickelodeon. Therefore, upon seeing Slimed, childhood nostalgia kicked in. Slimed is told in a segment of interviews from Actors, Producers and all the dreamers behind the scenes. I found the order […]
The Blood of Flowers was spellbinding and really took you to 17th century Persia. The descriptions of the process of rug making was very interesting and the colors and patterns the characters used sound gorgeous. I loved the idea of the girl’s ”secret marriage” and had me holding my breath every time her marriage contract […]