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This year I didn’t have as many A reads as I did last year but these B+ books are strong ones that almost made it. My list ranges from historical to contemporary, has fiction and non-fiction, and even a picture book of cats. In kinda, sorta chronological order in which ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsCanada / Christmas / France / Historical / military hero / War / Military / Widowed Heroine / World War I7 Comments
When the Great War is over, will their love be enough? After two years at the mercy of the Canadian Expeditionary force and the German war machine, Harry ran out of metaphors for death, synonyms for brown, and images of darkness. When he encounters color among the floating islands of ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Christmas / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / doctor hero / holiday novella / Italy / novella / Regency / Venice / widower3 Comments
Venice 1818 Lady Charlotte clings to one dream—to see the splendor of Rome before settling for life as the spinster sister of an earl. But now her feckless brother forces her to wait again, stranded in Venice when he falls ill, halfway to the place of her dreams. She finds ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / country-living / dysfunctional family / England / family relationships / holiday novella / novella / Regency7 Comments
The Earl of Chadbourn loves nothing better than to care for his fields, his flocks, and the people who earn their living from the land. Trapped by his brother-in-law’s death into responsibility for his traumatized nephew, grieving sister, and an estate gone to ruin, loneliness overwhelms him. The first-rate husbandry ... more >