Summary: This book is written from the point of view of at least four different people. The main people that the book focuses on are Fredrika, Elena, and Cecilia. There are also a couple of times when the point of view of Cecilia’s husband, Beni, is covered. Fredrika is a woman that travels from …
Definitely a solid 4.5. I read very few historical romances in general but this debut might just be one of my top favorites in the genre, and I’m so glad and delighted that I didn’t ignore it when it came onto my radar. This book takes place in late 19th century Britain set against the …
The target audience of this story is children ages 8-10. The language is simple, and meant to teach a simple history of African American civil rights. The story starts with a very old black woman, Lillian, at the bottom of a steep hill on voting day. The hill is a metaphor for how many uphill …
Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – Jonah Winter Read More »
Seven Days in May was another Chapters ‘bargain bin’ book that I picked up recently and I loved it! (Clearly being in the bargain bin at Chapters has little to do with the quality of the story). In part, it tells the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which took place on May …
There are so many genres and different kinds of books in the world that you often stumble upon mediocre pieces of literature. There are books that barely have an impact on you and you forget of the plot and the characters almost as soon as you reach the last page. But ‘The Cure for Dreaming’ …
There are possibly hundreds of fictional novels based on the sinking of Titanic on her maiden voyage across the atlantic in the early spring of 1912. This is definitely one of the better sort of the genre. The author chose to base her work on the urban legend of Captain Smith rising from the rapidly …
A comic-bio about a woman ahead of her time in so many ways…outspoken, fearless, progressive, and most notably, a relentless champion of women’s health and reproductive freedom. It’s hard to imagine what it was like before birth control. Margaret watched her mother endure 18 pregnancies…obscenity laws made it a crime to speak openly about sex …
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story – Peter Bagge Read More »
I’m grateful to the publisher for an advance copy of Old Baggage. ‘It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade…’ This book is a prequel, of sorts, to Crooked Heart, in which we follow the story …
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was first printed in 1792 by Joseph Johnson in London. Later that same year, it was reprinted in England and published in the United States and France. Fashionable responses ranged from distress to laughter to keenness. The treatise was indeed shocking and revolutionary, and while some forward thinkers …
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This is one of my favorite books in Coyle’s series. When Clare stumbles into Matteo’s surprise bachelor party, and his invitees hire a stripper who looks exactly like Brianne Seymour, his fiance, she is shocked. She does everything she can to hide what is going on from Brianne. When the young stripper has no …