2015 Another Year of Reading
40 books in 2015 – not as many as 2014, but still a decent number. As with 2014, some were superb, others I did not finish. Most were historical fiction;
January 6, 2016
40 books in 2015 – not as many as 2014, but still a decent number. As with 2014, some were superb, others I did not finish. Most were historical fiction;
I purchased Geraldine Brooks‘s latest novel The Secret Chord for the twenty-hour trip home from New Zealand. It’s set around 1000BC in the second iron age, the time of King David
AN ARTISTIC TALE SET IN A WORLD AT THE BRINK OF WAR The Great Depression put millions of Americans out of work, and the U.S. government responded with a range
In honour of Remembrance Day, I’m reblogging a post from last year on WWI novels. Not long ago, I asked readers what books they are reading about WWI. Through this blog,
So many historical fiction authors choose younger men and women to write about, those on the ascendancy of great historical change and their own place in it. In Elizabeth I,
After I pestered him with questions about marketing and social medial, my son, who’s in marketing and buys lots of books in this domain, gave me Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of
A recent reading of Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk prompts the question: What is grief? Macdonald’s grief at the sudden death of her father is overwhelming and all encompassing.
One of my favourite words is serendipity. Not only do I love the way it rolls off my tongue, but I also love what it means. Carol Bodensteiner, author of
So … you’ve been asked to review a novel and agreed to do so. The novel in question sounds interesting: a dash of romance, dramatic twists and turns, life and
My husband recommended All The Light We Cannot See in January, and again in February. I began reading it then, but was waylaid by other reading obligations. Having fulfilled those, I escaped
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
