Oh, you guys. Did you read Code Name Verity? You should. I mean, it’ll break your heart wide open but you should read it. If only so you can then pick up Rose Under Fire, the companion book to Code Name Verity, and break your heart all over again. Rose Justice, apart from having a great, superhero-esque name, is a young American pilot who goes to fight in WWII. She works for the ATA and becomes friends with Maddie, who you’ll recognize if you read […]
This Rogue is not so swoonworthy
The Rogue Not Taken (2015) is the first book I’ve read by Sarah MacLean. Each chapter begins with an alliterative sentence torn right from the gossip rags. The gossip always surrounds the “dangerous daughters” of a scandalous, socially climbing family. The eldest daughter is known for “tricking” a Duke into marriage, while all of her sisters are outrageous in their own ways. All except for the youngest, Sophie, who is known as the “boring and plain” daughter. Being boring doesn’t stop Sophie from pushing the unfaithful […]
Amelia Peabody Goes to Egypt Again
I’ve been trying to always have an audio book available to listen to when I’m in my car. I enjoyed Elizabeth Peter’s first book in her series about Amelia Peabody, so I decided to move on to The Curse of the Pharaohs (1981). The Curse of the Pharaohs begins about three years (I think?) after the ending of the first book. Amelia has married Radcliffe Emerson–her love interest/soul mate from the first book, she’s just recently had a child, and they’ve settled down to a relatively peaceful […]
Worst Neighbors Ever.
I wanted to love The Wordy Shipmates. If there’s anything that speaks to the essence of Me, it’s highly literate, passive-aggressive Puritans with authority issues. Who wouldn’t be into that? I re-read Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation last year, and she has a way of making history so relatable, with real, long-reaching consequences that 21st century Americans feel everyday. The Wordy Shipmates is really no different in that sense. But there’s something missing As to the writing, Vowell’s tongue is lodged firmly in her cheek. […]
Big Bada Bang
My utter enjoyment of How I Killed Pluto and Why it had it Coming led me to seek out another book on astronomical discovery. Unlike Pluto, The Day we Found the Universe is a bit drier; it spans a longer time period and over a dozen astronomers. “Hubble was lucky in a way. The Hubble Space Telescope could easily have been given another name had certain events turned out differently: if someone had not prematurely died (Keeler), if someone else had not taken a promotion […]
The Vicar and the Erotica Writer
Lady Sarah Frampton may be the daughter of a duke with a sizable dowry, but she’s known as the Watching Wallflower and is on her way to be firmly on the shelf. No one knows that behind her impeccable manners, the quiet and ever-observant Lady Sarah is in fact the author of a series of highly successful erotic novels. As The Lady of Dubious Quality, the virginal Lady Sarah uses the knowledge she’s acquired from illicit French novels to write out all her sexual fantasies […]
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