Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, May 7, 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 318 Rating: 3/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman’s World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.1918: … Continue reading Book Review: Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade
Publisher: Solaris, May 21, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 352 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): First in a sumptuous, female-led Arthurian Fantasy Romance trilogyWhen Anna Pendragon was born, Merlin "Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten."Married at twelve, and a mother soon after, Anna - the famed King … Continue reading Book Review: Queen of None by Natania Barron
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, March 26, 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 416 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people … Continue reading Book Review: The Paris Network by Siobhan Curham
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, May 14, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future.In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her … Continue reading Book Review: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
Publisher: Thomas Nelson, April 9, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the courage of those whose lives were forever changed by war—and the stories that bind us in the fight for what matters most.A tenant farmer’s son … Continue reading Book Review: The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron
Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, April 2, 2024 Format: Ebook Pages: 328 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the floriography craze in Europe, two sisters separated at birth are bound together by a secret language of flowers passed down to them by the mother they … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, March 5, 2024 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): A captivating historical novel set in post-war Casablanca about a young man marked by djinns who must decide where his loyalties lie as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts.Hamou Badi is born in a village in the … Continue reading Book Review: The Black Crescent by Jane Johnson
Publisher: Picador, January 1, 1997 Format: paperback Pages: 321 Rating: 4/5 stars Summary (From Goodreads): Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons.Told in … Continue reading Book Review: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
2023 was a great year for reading! Here are some stats before we get started! 218 books76,324 pages210 fiction, 8 nonfiction69 physical, 75 digital, 74 audioAverage book length: 350 pages69 five star reads BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER OF 2023 Empire of Wild by Cherie DimalineThe Cartographers by Peng ShepherdThe Lioness by Chris BohjalianThe Change by Kirsten MillerDaisy … Continue reading Top Books of 2023
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