B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / 20th century / blind / Boss-Secretary / classical music / disabled character / England / musician / Warrender Saga3 Comments
Dreams have been dashed… Antoinette Burney, a more than promising music student, is disappointed and furious when the famous concert pianist Lewis Freemont fails her in an exam. To make matters worse, he tells her forthrightly that she will never make the grade as a professional pianist. Her hopes and ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / 20th century / classical music / England / Historical / Opera Singer / Warrender Saga15 Comments
Dear Readers, I first did a review of this book in 2009 after Sunita loaned it to me but at the time it wasn’t available in digital format. When I saw it was being rereleased, I first squeed with Sunita and then wanted to repost the review as more people ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / American historical / bootlegging / forced-marriage / Historical / teacher heroineComments Off on REVIEW: Dangerous Hearts by Stefanie Keith
When schoolteacher Rebecca Sims ventures up on Hazel Mountain in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia to check on one of her young students, she is warned that this can be a very dangerous place to be for a beautiful young woman on her own. After being stranded on the mountain ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / 20th century / Alaska / journalist / murder-investigation / mystery/suspense / reporter / women's rightsComments Off on REVIEW: Borrowing Death by Cathy Pegau
Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what really makes her blood run cold. . . After three months in Cordova, Charlotte is getting accustomed ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / Biography / epistolary / epistolary novel / Historical / illness / Jewish-faith / Sweden / World War II5 Comments
In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — his lungs are filled ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads20th century / class differences / doctor hero / England / Historical / LGBTQIA+ / teacher heroine / World War I6 Comments
East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha’s husband ... more >