B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / 19th century / American historical / dual-timeline / Historical / lawyer / law related / murder-investigation / Race / West Virginia6 Comments
Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, and encourages his elderly ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / American historical / Historical / teacher heroine / Western RomanceComments Off on REVIEW: Last Chance Cowboys: The Outlaw by Anna Schmidt
“‘Someone like me?’ Is that how you see me, Amanda? As someone people should fear?” “I don’t know what to think,” she said. “One minute you seem so dangerous, and the next you’re sweet and caring and…” He took a step closer, his eyes sweeping her face. “And which do ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / Acting / actor/actress / American historical / Historical / slavery3 Comments
NOTE: This has been published in the UK as “The Floating Theatre” Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / American historical / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / western / Western Romance8 Comments
RESCUE ME After his train is robbed at gunpoint, Remington Frost awakens from a blow to find the bandits gone…along with the woman he was shadowing for protection. No stranger to risk, Remington will do what it takes to bring Phoebe Apple to safety and her kidnappers to justice. But ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / classic / English Literature15 Comments
Dear Reader: Thomas Hardy and I have a fraught relationship (not that he’s aware of it, having been dead for the past 89 years). Once upon a time I read Jude the Obscure, and I did not like it. It was boring and depressing , a particularly noxious combination. Then ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / class differences / England / Historical / Italy / Oxford / Regency / Satire / scholar9 Comments
Thomas Adam, junior Fellow of St. Columb’s College at Oxford University, is one of countless English travellers crossing the channel to explore the reopened Continent after the Napoleonic wars. With Boney imprisoned, there is no time like the present to experience French wine and the Italian countryside — at least, ... more >
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