B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildrens-books / Christmas / England / Fantasy / short-story2 Comments
It is Christmas Eve and, for the toys in Mr Blossom’s shop, it is their last chance to be sold. Holly, a small doll dressed especially for Christmas, wishes hard for her own special child. But the day ends and Holly is left in the window. On Christmas morning a ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / holiday novella / London / novella / Regency / Servants2 Comments
A young woman, desperate to have one last lovely Christmas, brings the spirit of the season to the Harrington household. Grace Ashman has lost everything: her mother five years ago, and now her father and her home just a week before Christmas. She lives on the streets until one kind ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century literature / classic literature / English Literature6 Comments
Since reading Middlemarch in 2010, I have been working my way through George Eliot’s fairly sparse backlist. I had already read Silas Marner in high school (I should reread it, actually) and hadn’t loved it. Middlemarch remains a high point for me (I now consider it one of my favorite ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsantique books / Contemporary / England / faith / Library / mystery / religion6 Comments
Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. His one respite is his time spent nestled ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsScience Fiction9 Comments
Dalí Tamareia has everything—a young family and a promising career as an Ambassador in the Sol Fed Diplomatic Corps. Dalí’s path as a peacemaker seems clear, but when their loved ones are killed in a terrorist attack, grief sends the genderfluid changeling into a spiral of self-destruction. Fragile Sol Fed ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsBillionaire / Contemporary / dog / enemies to lovers / New-York5 Comments
Dear Annika Martin, What a delight Most Eligible Bastard was! Full of your quirky trademark humour and sweetly charming, as well as full of sexual tension. There was even one section (“the Smuckers Incident”) where I was actually laughing out loud – not smiling, or chuckling but actual full-on cackling ... more >
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