Book Reviews20th century / chick-lit / Contemporary romance / Denmark / England / Los Angeles / Memoir / Reading lists12 Comments
Remedial Rocket Science by Susannah Nix I picked up this book when it was available for free, and since I’d heard good things about it, I actually read it, unlike with some freebies that merely clutter my kindle. The blurb describes Remedial Rocket Science as a romantic comedy, with comparisons ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / Canada / Historical / Native American / RCMP / turn of the 20th century12 Comments
Mrs. Mike’ is a love story, a true story; the story of Katherine Mary O’Fallon, a sixteen year-old Irish girl from Boston, and Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police who meet at her uncle’s ranch in Alberta, Canada where she is sent to recover from pleurisy. They meet, ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / family relationships / farming / Historical / Post WWII / retired military / Scotland1 Comments
After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya, James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a new life at Mureth House, the home of his aunt and uncle, Mamie and Jock Johnstone, where he hopes to learn to be a farmer. But he soon learns that picking up farming isn’t an ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1940s / 20th century / England / nurse / pilot / War / Military / World War II3 Comments
From the deserts of North Africa to the fever wards back home, this wartime love story charts the distant courtship between a young Wellington Bomber pilot and a probationer nurse. He sees action above the skies of Egypt in one of the most hazardous missions of the Desert Airforce, while ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / Japanese / non-fiction / Photographer / Vietnam / War / Military2 Comments
On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki’s ten years in Vietnam—beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / 20th century / Alaska / American historical / Historical / journalist / murder mystery / murder-investigationComments Off on REVIEW: Murder on Location by Cathy Pegau
In the Alaska Territory, suffragette Charlotte Brody is a newspaper reporter in the frontier town of Cordova. She’s a woman ahead of her time living on the rugged edge of civilization—but right now the most dangerous element she faces may come from sunny California . . . An expedition has ... more >
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