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Pioneer Woman

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

November 19, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Frontier Grit – 3.5 stars In this book we meet twelve women who traversed the American frontier in search of their dreams, though what these dreams were and the paths they took to them vary extraordinarily. As a child I devoured Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Though I’ve have quite a lot of bubbles burst about her depiction of her childhood (check out Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires to learn more), my interest in those so-called pioneers who tried to ‘tame’ the Wild West still persists, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Western Tagged With: 19th century, biography, california, Heather B. Moore, historical, history, human trafficking, Marianne Monson, United States

Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Western · Tags: 19th century, biography, california, Heather B. Moore, historical, history, human trafficking, Marianne Monson, United States ·
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An Inexplicable Hatred of Raisins

Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

November 15, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Score again for shelf-browsing time burning selection from the local library! I had a few minutes to spare, had to stop by the local library to pick something else up, went shelf-browsing and found this: Ink & Sigil. This was fantasy fun at its best, not only because of the characters, mechanics of the magic, and intrigue of the plot, but also because of the reasonably integrated exploration of a real world serious problem, in this case human trafficking. Let’s back up a sec to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, fae, folklore, Hobgoblins, human trafficking, Ink & Sigil, Iron Druid Chronicles, kevin hearne

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:83 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, fae, folklore, Hobgoblins, human trafficking, Ink & Sigil, Iron Druid Chronicles, kevin hearne ·
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