Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Romances
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have mandated a a Valentine Day-based freebie, and very predictably I thought I’d list my…
Historical Fiction
Teaser Tuesdays: The Lives of Others
byI am right in the middle of reading this massive tome – The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee. This book is massive in…
Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books of 2015
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list the top books I read in 2015. This year, I…
7.8 Unveiling Tudor Secrets: A Review of Wolf Hall
bySet in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a highly fictionalized novel documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell…
Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-me Authors of 2015 #TTT
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list ten new-to-me authors whose books I read in 2015. This…
Teaser Tuesdays: Wolf Hall
byI am surprised by how much I am enjoying this book, and actually enjoying reading about Cromwell – one of the most disliked people…
Halloween Reading – Drood and The Little Stranger
byThe season has been perfect for ghost stories – the ghostlier the better. Usually October/November is still fairly bright here, but this year a…
Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Halloween Books I Want to Read
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have given us a Halloween-themed freebie. I chose this opportunity to list the books I…
Teaser Tuesdays: Drood
byI have been slowly reading Drood by Dan Simmons all this month in the spirit of Halloween, breaking now and then for more fast-paced…
Outlaws
byOn a summer day at the arcade, timid sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas encounters two charismatic rebels: El Zarco (“Blue Eyes”) and his gorgeous girl, Tere….