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May 25, 2022

REVIEW: What the Ermine Saw by Eden Collinsworth

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews15th century / Art / art history / History / Holocaust / Italy / Leonardo da Vinci / Milan / non-fiction / painter / Poland / war / World War II4 Comments

Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardo’s genius would ... more >

September 9, 2021

REVIEW: Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsHolocaust / immigrant / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / non-fiction / Poland / survival / World War II4 Comments

A gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal ... more >

February 18, 2017

REVIEW: We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / Historical / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / Poland / war / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separated at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive—and to reunite It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live ... more >

August 25, 2015

Tuesday News: Book club members kicked off train, Duke students refuse to read Bechdel, Germany goes for soft DRM, and Tolkein recites his own poetry

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Bechdel / Book-club / DRM / Duke / Ebooks / Germany / microaggressions / Netherlands / poetry / Poland / Race / sexual identity / Tolkein12 Comments

Group of black women kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud -What happened to this book club on the Napa Valley Wine Train is pretty much the definition of microaggression. It’s also just plain gross. After some complaints that the eleven women were too “loud,” they were “paraded” off ... more >

American Pie by Margaret St. George
February 20, 2013

REVIEW: American Pie by Margaret St. George (aka Maggie Osborne)

JayneB Reviews19th century / Century of American Romance/Dreams series / Harlequin / immigrants / immigration / Ireland / New York City / Poland7 Comments

Dear Ms. St. George, Years ago, after reading the DIK review for “A Century of American Romance” at AAR, I tracked down all twelve of the OOP books and read half of them. I can’t recall why I didn’t continue considering how good I thought those six were but, there ... more >

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