On the Blog . . .
06 Nov
Happy Friday, and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I had the very great pleasure of reading Amy Lynn Green's debut novel Things We Didn't Say this week. It's an intelligent, witty, insightful, and thought-provoking epistolary novel (meaning it's told though letters), and
04 Nov
Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a nearby
03 Nov
Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week we're talking about non-bookish hobbies, and I have to say, this list has made me realise just how much of my life revolves around books! Nevertheless, here goes:
31 Oct
Sometimes, the only hope is the enemy.
Leif Metcalfe is done waiting for answers and seizes control, a move that comes with a high price and a deadly risk: teaming up with the enemy. He can only hope that what he uncovers will heal the wounds he's inflicted on those he loves.
Iskra Todorova
30 Oct
Happy Friday, and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. Last weekend, I barricaded myself in my bedroom so I could dive into one of my most anticipated reads for this year: Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig, the conclusion to her Book of the Wars series. I've learned from experience
29 Oct
An Appalachian Feud Blows Up in 1912
In Carroll County, a corn shucking is the social event of the season, until a mischievous kiss leads to one of the biggest tragedies in Virginia history. Ava Burcham isn’t your typical Blue Ridge Mountain girl. She has a bad habit of courtin’ trouble, and
28 Oct
It is AD 312. Rome teeters on the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. On the Rhine frontier, Brandulf Rex, a pagan Germanic barbarian, joins the Roman army as a spy and special forces operative. Down in Rome, Junia Flavia, the lovely and pious daughter of a nominally Christian
27 Oct
Happy Tuesday, reading friends. It's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's prompt is a Hallowe'en Freebie, but 31 October also happens to be Reformation Day, when Martin Luther is purported to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church in
