The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into Continue Reading…
Captains Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call have retired from active duty in the Texas Rangers and tried to settle in to life as ranchers. When an old buddy shows up talking about how beautiful Montana is and how much land is available for ranching, Captain Call is seized with the idea of being the first Continue Reading…
Author Mardi McConnochie imagines what the lives of the Brontë sisters would have been like if they had grown up on a remote island/penal colony off the coast of Australia. In this fictional tale, their father is the warden of the colony, paranoid to the point of madness and with a giant God-complex. He makes Continue Reading…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Review: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys Review: Dog On It by Spencer Quinn Review: Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama by Lian Hearn Review: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Readers’ Workouts My sign up post for the Continue Reading…
Vida Winter is called the Charles Dickens of her age. No one has ever been able to find out the story of her life. Any reporter who tries gets a beautiful story, but still, it’s only a story. But now Vida is old and sick and she must share her story with the world. She Continue Reading…
4.5 Stars. Oh my goodness. How did I not know about this? I’ve come across vague statements about how many millions of people died under Stalin’s regime in the past. I didn’t realize the scale of it, if that makes sense. I somehow thought it was smaller groups of “dissenters” killed across many, many years and across a vast […]
Chet and his human, Bernie, are a private investigating team. When a missing teen case comes their way, Bernie is initially reluctant to take it. He eventually does and the girl shows up under her own steam hours later. But then she goes missing for real. Bernie can just feel that something is really wrong Continue Reading…
Picking up exactly where Episode 1 left off, Episode 2 finds Takeo and Kaede en route to a marriage at Lord Iida’s stronghold. Takeo is still bent on revenge and Kaede is just trying to survive this brutal world of men. There’s still a lot of potential in this series, it’s just not getting places Continue Reading…
photo credit: Love Of Books by George Hodan Christine at Buckling Bookshelves is hosting a Banned Books Challenge. Here’s what she has to say: Since Banned Books Week 2012, I have been trying to make an effort to read more banned and challenged books, particularly classics, but want to make a more organized and formal Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for January 21, 2013! It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Posted: Readers’ Workouts–My weight loss story The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall: Review Across the Nightingale Floor: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Continue Reading…
A successful WWII columnist, Juliet Ashton, has just published a collection of her popular wartime columns. But now she’s looking to write a “meatier” book, she just can’t find a topic she wants to live with throughout years of research. Then she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a native of Guernsey. He shares with Continue Reading…