This is not a book about the Kennedys; yes, of course, Jackie Kennedy and her children play major roles in the life of Kathy McKeon but the overall story is how a young, Irish immigrant found her place in America at the side of one of the most beloved American families. Kathy was raised in poverty on a farm in Ireland, when she was nineteen her American uncle offered to pay the way for her brother to come to New York but he declined. The […]
A Civil War romance with spying and plenty of danger
From Goodreads: Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South – to spy for the Union Army. Malcolm McCall is a detective for Pinkerton’s Secret Service. Subterfuge is his calling, but he’s facing his deadliest mission yet – risking his life to infiltrate a Rebel enclave in Virginia. Two undercover agents who share a common cause – and an undeniable […]
A kind of boring but well-balanced history of Coal
My life was neither created nor destroyed by coal. So much of this book talks about the balance between cost and benefit/harm, but it also spends a lot of time focusing on the industries that built up around coal: iron, transportation, heating/engines. I grew up not in coal country, but adjacent to it in Virginia, where I would see thousands of coal trains over time. The history itself focuses on the development of coal as a fuel source, it’s other more ornamental uses in history, […]
Long lost love returns
This is the last book in the Sinful Suitors series, and returns a long lost character back to England. There had been mentions of him in previous books in the series, so I was interested to see how it would play out. Niall Lindsay, Earl of Margrave, has been in exile for seven years after killing a man in a duel. He was a young man at the time, and the duel was over the man raping his sister Clarissa, a fact that his family […]
“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we’d end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”
I’d never heard of the painting Christina’s World but it is an otherwise well known work by American artist Andrew Wyeth; Christina Baker Kline uses the painting as a launching point for her novel A Piece of the World which does an excellent job blending the lives of real people into an enjoyable piece of fiction. “Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my […]
“Spunky English girl overcomes impossible odds and outsmarts heathen villains”
After being disappointed with the latest historical romances I’ve read, I decided to reread some old Loretta Chase books. I’ve never been disappointed with her books, and this is one of my favorites. It’s book two in the Fallen Women series, where Ms Chase gives unconventional heroines their HEA. Zoe Octavia Lexham was known as a bolter when she was child. She continually ran away and only Lucien de Grey, a ward of her father’s, was able to find her. Unfortunately, Lucien wasn’t with them […]
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