Lindsay and I splurged and brought copies of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and it is going on our favorite shelf to smell, hug and love!! We read this one in our Traveling Sister Group and there is so much to talk about. I haven’t stop thinking about this one since I read it …
Brenda’s review The Mercies is inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials. Taking these historical events, Kiran Millwood Hargrave creates a story centered around a community of powerful, independent, strong female characters. After the storm took the men’s lives in a small Norwegian village in 1617, the women …
Brenda’s review The Exiles explores a part of history I had no idea about. Christina Baker Kline brings us a well-researched powerful, emotional story that weaves history, real-life people, and fiction as she captures the hardship of four women set in 19 century Australia. The story centers around three English female convicts being transported to …
D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot. But in my mind, it’s the other way around: a person grows into his name. ~ Marjolijn Lindsay’s review An endearing and emotional journey. I loved the premise of this novel …
The Berlin Girl by Mandy Robotham is available December 8, 2020! Lindsay’s review An entertaining and adventurous journey in prewar Berlin. Georgie is at the start of her investigative journalist career. She is sent to Berlin to uncover the truth about about who Hitler is and how people feel in prewar Berlin about this new …
Lindsay’s review An informative, eye-opening look into French-Canadian history, the Duplessis Orphans and Quebec’s fight to gain independence. 1990’s: Veronique’s father is the infamous Leo Fortin, a notorious FLQ leader who spent a decade in jail for killing a prominent politician during a political standoff in the 1970’s. Vero has grown up in the shadow …
