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November 23, 2020

REVIEW: Business as Usual by Jane Oliver

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / 1930s / epistolary / Historical / London / shop assistant / working class10 Comments

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Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It’s a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of ... more >

June 11, 2020

REVIEW: About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known by Peggy Rowe

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsautobiography / epistolary / family relationships / First-Person / HumorNo Comments

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Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike’s rise to fame. Since the day they said, “I do,” Peggy’s previous “doting” lifestyle met with her husband John’s minimalistic ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure ... more >

June 9, 2020

REVIEW: 500 Miles from You by Jenny Colgan

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsContemporary / epistolary / Fiction / fish-out-of-water / London / long distance relationship / nurse / PTSD / Scotland7 Comments

Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissa to spend a few months doing a much ... more >

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January 7, 2020

What Janine is reading: SFF read in 2019

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbiracial heroine / clones / diversity / epistolary / flashbacks / genre-bender / LGBTQIA / murder mystery / necromancer / POC / portal fantasy / queer / Reading lists / romantic-elements / Science Fiction / space travel / story-within-a-story / sword fighter / YA science fiction6 Comments

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty A spaceship crew of six clones wake up in a cloning vat missing twenty-five years of memories. Of their much older previous incarnations, five are dead and one is comatose. Additionally, the spaceship has changed course. It quickly becomes apparent that one of the clones ... more >

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December 27, 2019

Janine’s Best of 2019

JanineA Reviews / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists#metoo / #ownvoices / 1870s / 1920s / 1970s / accountant / Agent/Spies/Undercover / arranged-marriage / Asian heroine / Asperger's / audiobook / book editor / California / class differences / Contemporary / custody battle / dragons / enemies to lovers / epistolary / f/f / Fairyland / fake relationship / family / Fantasy / farming / friends-to-lovers / gods / heroine in disguise / high-school / historical romance / Hong Kong based world / illegitimate-child / LGBTQIA / Literary fiction / London / look alikes / mafia / magical powers / Malaysia / martial arts / Mexico / nobleman / Northern Ireland / nurse / POC / POC author / political intrigue / quest / Reading lists / reformed hero / Regency-based world / romantic-elements / roommates / saga / single dad / streetwise heroine / Time-Travel / Vietnam / waitress / war19 Comments

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I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >

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December 20, 2019

Jayne’s Best of 2019

JayneA Review Category / A Reviews / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten Lists#ownvoices / arranged-marriage / autistic character / autobiography / bookseller / Canada / Cancer / cartoons / cats / class differences / Contemporary / death / enemies to lovers / England / epistolary / family relationships / First-Person / France / friends-to-lovers / Historical / Humor / immigrant fiction / mathematics / medieval / New York City / non-fiction / pilot / POC / POC author / PTSD / servant romance / Vietnam / Wales / War / Military / Womens-Fiction / World War I / World War II9 Comments

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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 >

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