8.8 Shōgun
byOf late, I haven’t really read many chunksters. My sweet spot seems to be around 500 pages maximum. If I see anything longer, I…
Historical Fiction
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8.9 Homegoing
byHomegoing was recommended to me some time last year when I was raving on Instagram stories about the History of Slavery podcast. Only, I…
Top Ten Tuesday | Books On My Summer 2025 Reading List
byTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books that coincide with…
7.8 Mrs England: Secrets Lurk in the Yorkshire Moors
byI picked up Mrs England by Stacey Halls to read on a train ride to Leeds. I didn’t know anything about the book or…
8.7 Review: Pachinko – A Multigenerational Epic
byAfter reading and enjoying Free Food for Millionaires, I knew I had to read Min Jin Lee’s other more famous work – Pachinko. About…
8.1 Unraveling Family Secrets in Homecoming
byKate Morton follows a formula with her books. There is always a mystery that spans multiple timelines. As long as you don’t try to…
7.8 The Bastard of Istanbul: Echoes of the Past
byI loved The Island of Missing Trees, which is about the conflict between Greeks and Turks in Cyprus. I then started digging around for…
Top ten best books of 2024
byTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books that coincide with…
7 Learned By Heart: A Review
byEver since I started reading Sarah Waters, I have been partial to a good Sapphic romance (especially a historical one), and I never miss…
8.3 The Cider House Rules: A Meandering Journey Through Love, Loss, and Advocacy
byI watched The Cider House Rules movie based on this book when it first came out and simply loved it. Such a beautiful, well-shot,…