Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Saturday, August 8, 2026

Review: An Infinite Love Story (by Chanel Cleeton)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars I’ve read nearly all of Chanel Cleeton’s historical fiction novels, her newest release, An Infinite Love Story , is p...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Review: Song For Another Home (by Bora Lee Reed)

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My Rating: 3.5 stars This is an interesting story about a historical time period that doesn’t often get written about – the Korean War and...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Review: The Calamity Club (by Kathryn Stockett)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars Whew, this book was long!   At 650+ pages (28+ hours on audio), Kathryn Stockett’s The Calamity Club is an epic forc...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Review: The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli (by Karina Yan Glaser)

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My Rating: 5 stars Wow!   This beautifully written middle grade novel absolutely blew me away!   I honestly can’t remember the last time I...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Review: The Young Will Remember (by Eve J. Chung)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars Ever since I finished reading Taiwanese American author Eve J. Chung’s stunning and immersive debut novel Daughters o...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Review: Wait For Me (by Amy Jo Burns)

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My Rating: 4 stars I loved both of the previous 2 novels that Amy Jo Burns had written (2020’s Shiner and 2024’s Mercury ), so going into...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Review: The Fourth Princess (by Janie Chang)

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My Rating: 4 stars The Fourth Princess is the fourth Janie Chang novel I’ve read and while I liked this one quite a bit, my favorite of h...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Review: Kin (by Tayari Jones)

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My Rating: 5 stars Tayari Jones’s latest novel is a beautifully rendered story of two motherless daughters – self-named “cradle friends” -...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Review: Skylark (by Paula McLain)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars With her latest novel Skylark , author Paula McLain brings us a gorgeously written tale of survival and resilience th...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Review: Hamnet (by Maggie O'Farrell)

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My Rating: 5 stars From its publication date in 2020, I’ve had a copy of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet both on my TBR and on my bookshe...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Review: 11/22/63 (by Stephen King)

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My Rating: 5 stars Wow, what a book!   This 849-page tome took me more than a week to read, but it was absolutely worth every minute spent...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review: The Phoenix Pencil Company (by Allison King)

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My Rating: 4 stars Allison King’s debut novel The Phoenix Pencil Company was an interesting read that turned out to be nothing like what ...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Review: The Story She Left Behind (by Patti Callahan Henry)

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My Rating: 4.5 stars I am officially back!   I completed my final classes for my Master’s degree last week and while I’m admittedly reliev...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Review: Homeseeking (by Karissa Chen)

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My Rating: 5 stars Karissa Chen’s debut Homeseeking is a novel that resonated deeply with me, to the point that I’m honestly not sure where ...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Review: Good Dirt (by Charmaine Wilkerson)

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My Rating: 4 stars I really enjoyed Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel Black Cake , which I found to be a very interesting story told in a wa...