A friend gave me this book for my birthday last October. At the time I didn’t look too closely at it and assumed it was a typical nonfiction book. While I am interested in the subject, non-fiction tends to be lower on my priority list, so it got shelved with my TBR and we moved on to cake and board games. Last month I wasn’t able to write my review for The Bear and the Nightingale right away so thought it would be best to read something […]
The Kind of Stuff They Don’t Teach You About At Church
“A Mormon has a right to believe what he will. His thoughts may be as free as the unconfined air, and his conscience should by no means be restrained by legal enactments. But his acts are quite a different thing.” -Raleigh News and Observer, July 20, 1881
Too much dry travel writing, not enough DRAGONS for my taste
3.5 stars Purported to be the first of Lady Isabella Trent’s journals, chronicling her life-long exploration of the world and its dragons, this book is a historical novel set in an alternate universe, where dragons obviously exist. I’m unsure of whether the time period in these books would be the Regency or more like Victorian times in our history, but the fictional country that our protagonist, Lady Isabella is from, is clearly modelled on historical England. We follow our heroine from childhood, where we learn […]
A story of untold heroes
For the most part, you know what you’re getting when you read a book that takes place during World War II and is set in a location that was occupied by Germany. Even if you find a book or movie that tells an inspirational or uplifting story within that backdrop, it’s always delivered with the requisite edge of horror. How could it not? There is no story to tell from that period in human history that isn’t tainted by the atrocity. I’m not sure if […]
Bonus points for the clever title
I recently visited New York City with my BFF, and we spent a good 4 hours in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the last hour was futilely trying to leave, as we kept discovering new rooms full of stuff we hadn’t seen). I’ve got a BA in history, and took a lot of art history classes in high school and college. I was super proud of myself wandering through the Met as I consistently recognized art by various artists that I had studied — apparently some […]
All Hail the Women Behind the Chief
From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, each of these women has carved out her own path, all while raising her children, serving as her husband’s greatest protector and confidante, and negotiating the fraught relationship between her staff in the East Wing and her husband’s advisers in the West Wing. I loved Kate Andersen Brower’s The Residence and was super excited to receive First Women as part of the CBR gift exchange last year. I’m always slow to get to the books I own vs. library books with deadlines but […]
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