Category: Reviews
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Top Hist Fic Picks for June 2022
June means summer. After long years of attending school, added to twenty-three years of teaching, my brain is wired to the joy June brings to students and teachers alike. Summer is my favorite season. I love being outdoors and vacationing at the beach, which is a great place to read. This month there seems to be…
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The Artist Colony by Joanna FitzPatrick
I review a lot of books and enjoy most of them. As a result, I give a lot of five-star reviews. When an astounding book comes along that outshines everything around it, giving five stars isn’t enough. The Artist Colony deserves more than five stars. Set in Carmel, California, in the summer of 1924, this…
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Top Hist Fic Picks for May
This post first appeared on paperlanternwriters.com We didn’t have very many April showers where I live, but I still hope for lots of May flowers! On a personal level, this month brings my first Mother’s Day as a grandmother (and my daughter-in-law’s first Mother’s Day). It’s a month to celebrate spring and mothers! New historical…
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Top Hist Fic Picks for April 2022
This article first appeared on paperlanternwriters.com April is a busy time in my family. We have five birthdays, including my sons and my father-in-law (who’s turning 92 this year), Easter, and, of course, tax day. Even so, I always make time for reading. Good thing, because a lot of historical fiction debuts this month! Interesting…
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Ten Books to End Women’s History Month that I Reread
I read a lot of historical fiction, of all time periods and about both men and women. I enjoy all of Marie Benedict’s books, Kate Quinn, Stephanie Thornton, and so many others. In order for me to read the same book again, it must be something special. Since Women’s History Month is ending, though, I…