Review: The Good: I’m typically not a romance novel kind of person, but I’ve always enjoyed reading about women behind the (fill infamous man here) perhaps I would have enjoyed People Magazine if it existed in the early 1900s. The details depicted to Picasso’s paintings were miraculous and could vividly picture them. Eva’s yellow kimono […]
Novels that involve famed persons tend to be told through a female’s eye I did not find that to be the case in The Fortune Hunter. Daisy Goodwin’s book is one of a love triangle and is aptly told by all three participant’s point of view. It could very easily be told through the eyes […]
When my grandmother was a child she had a doll. She was playing with this doll while work was being done on her home. She set her toy down but when she returned it had been walled in, never to be seen again. This what first came to mind upon the discovery of Nell’s Diary. […]
Speed Date With Darcy: First Date: Sir Camden is a combination of Wickham and Darcy. He has the apparent bad boy persona but the mysteriousness of Darcy. We are shown a snippet of his good nature which actually reminded me of Colonel Brandon. So far, I have a bag of Austenesque characters. Second Date: Characters […]
“Thinking I was free from the Mongols forever, I felt such joy that I almost cried my thanks aloud.” Our heroine Sofia exclaims at the beginning of Solomon’s Bride, I so wished this was true, and routed for her at the end of The Grip of God, but knew this would not be the case. […]
I’ve always enjoyed reading novels about Egyptian Pharaohs but they have mainly been on Nefertiti and Cleopatra, so when a novel about Hatshepsut came to my attention I jumped at the chance as I haven’t read much about her — why did it take me so long! Yes, the novel is fiction but beyond the […]
While I was reading Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter I felt like a foreign Bachelorette was being played in front of me, only with the Queen handing out the roses. It was clear that the bulk of this story would be about Mary’s love life and after being denied young love Queen Elizabeth feels it is her […]
I read The Collector of Dying Breaths slowly, as if I was taking my last breath. The story was as intoxicating as the perfumes described in its pages. When a story is told in two parts let alone two centuries I am usually drawn more towards one. This was not the case here. I was […]
While reading The Grip of God I felt a nagging feeling in the back of my head, Sofia and her story reminds me of someone, but who? Last night it came to me, Cynthia Ann Parker. Strange I know but bear with me, (and yes I know Cynthia Ann was a real person) both were abducted […]
Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan’s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah’s is an […]