The book club I started with my friends has been getting more and more official and we’re getting more input on books from people not me, which is wonderful. It’s also how I ended up reading In the Garden of Beasts because nonfiction has really just not been my particular kettle of fish. That fact remains, but I am glad I read it. William Dodd is a Depression-era university professor who would really just like a little more free time to work on his book. He […]
Becoming a Bright Young Thing
This book is set in the late 1920s in Britain, the era of the Bright Young Things who were rich and titled and carefree. Our heroine, Rachel Woodley, however is none of those things. At the start of the book, she is working as a governess to a trio of children in Paris and receives a telegram informing her that her mother is at death’s door. Due to the fact she rebuffed the advances of one of her co-workers, he delayed passing along the telegram […]
Let the Children March
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robison is a poetic look at the Children’s March of 1963. The adults knew it was time to fight for their rights. But they were afraid of the repercussions. The children decided, it was their rights too, and decided to march. A poetic introduction that is accented by Frank Morrison’s illusions of a time of history that many might not know of. Told from a child’s view, what happened to the children and teens of the march is powerful. […]
“The wolfes were safe, but there would be blood. Blood for Blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it. Salvation, damnation, salvation, damnation.”
Spoilers for Wolf by Wolf. “Monsters cut children open and call it progress. Monsters murder entire groups of people without blinking but get upset when they have to wash human ash from their garden strawberries. Monsters are the ones who watch other people do these things and do nothing to stop it.” The events of this series take place in a world where Hitler won WWII and the Third Reich is still in power. Yael is a Jewish teenager who, through painful experimentation in a concentration […]
I sat, I read, I’m happy.
First book, first time, very excited. I have to say one thing though, just to get it out of the way: I cheated. I’m a teacher and I’m teaching this book to my class. I did the thing where I found a book that perfectly fit my history unit and had wonderful reviews, so I picked it. But I hadn’t actually read it until yesterday. So I cheated a little, because this is kinda work and pleasure. Not just a cannonball. Got that out of the […]
A Gilded Age mystery
From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder. This book is a mixture of historical romance with an intriguing plot of family secrets and mystery that is very well done. It’s set at the end of the 1800’s, in the wealthy environs of New York society where rigid rules of appearance were adhered to. Bayard and Annabelle Van Duyvil are the glamorous couple that appear to have it […]
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