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I love to read and my blog is my way of sharing my enthusiasm with the world. I love medieval history and my favorite genre is historical fiction, thus the name.
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Review: Angels of Destruction, Keith Donohue
One snowy night, a small girl named Norah appears outside Margaret Quinn’s door. Margaret’s daughter Erica ran away ten years ago to join a cult with her boyfriend, and in the meantime Margaret has lost her husband to illness and now li...
Review: The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
This companion novel to Oryx and Crake takes the reader into the pleeblands, exploring the effect that Crake’s super virus had on the ordinary people. Toby and Ren both spent a time as God’s Gardeners, a religion devoted to worshipping ...
Review: The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
This companion novel to Oryx and Crake takes the reader into the pleeblands, exploring the effect that Crake’s super virus had on the ordinary people. Toby and Ren both spent a time as God’s Gardeners, a religion devoted to worshipping ...
Review: Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Humanity has been devastated by a virus and Snowman, formerly known as Jimmy, is perhaps the only human to have survived, for all he knows. With him are his friend Crake’s perfect creations, people genetically modified to become more perfect ...
Review: Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Humanity has been devastated by a virus and Snowman, formerly known as Jimmy, is perhaps the only human to have survived, for all he knows. With him are his friend Crake’s perfect creations, people genetically modified to become more perfect ...
Review: Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Frank and April Wheeler are desperately unhappy. Married for the sake of their children, living lives that they believe are meaningless, in a suburban town full of similar ordinary couples, they are both clamoring inwardly for a change. They beli...
Review: Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Frank and April Wheeler are desperately unhappy. Married for the sake of their children, living lives that they believe are meaningless, in a suburban town full of similar ordinary couples, they are both clamoring inwardly for a change. They beli...
Review: The Blue Notebook, James Levine
Batuk is a fifteen-year-old Indian prostitute. She was sold into prostitution by her father at only nine years old, after a less than idyllic, but still relatively happy childhood. Batuk’s path to prostitution is devastating, more so what she...
Review: The Blue Notebook, James Levine
Batuk is a fifteen-year-old Indian prostitute. She was sold into prostitution by her father at only nine years old, after a less than idyllic, but still relatively happy childhood. Batuk’s path to prostitution is devastating, more so what she...
Review: Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
When Molly Lane dies, two of her friends meet outside a crematorium to express both their remorse and their view of Molly’s last days. Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday are a pair of extremely successful men who at one point or another had an ...
Review: The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey
From the inside cover of The Wilderness: It’s Jake’s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life – his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he i...
Review: Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie
Hiroko Tanaka, a young woman living in Nagasaki in World War II, has fallen in love with a German. They know their lives are constantly in danger, but somehow their love has blossomed regardless. On the same day that Konrad proposes, the American...
Review: The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
In besieged Sarajevo, a cellist, gazing out his window, sees more than 20 people die from a bomb while waiting for bread. In mourning for them, he decided to play at that exact spot for 22 days, to honor all of the dead, putting his life at risk. ...
Review: In the Wake of the Boatman, Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Just after Puttnum is born, his father, Carl, considers breaking his neck to spare him the disappointments of life. At the same time, he wishes for his son to embody certain masculine ideals and make him proud. When Puttnum is seven, he tries to ...
Review: Possession, A.S. Byatt
When Roland Mitchell comes across a letter from Randolph Henry Ash to Christabel La Motte in the course of regular research, he is so excited that he takes the letter home with him. Randolph Henry Ash, a nineteenth-century poet, is the subject of R...
Review: Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
In 1940, Greek geologist Athos was digging in a war-stricken Polish city when a small boy emerged from the mud; no one realized that he was alive until he started to cry. Jakob was only seven years old and his entire family had been taken and proba...
