Tag: Book Review

Civil War Stories From Lynn Austin

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Lynn Austin’s Refiner’s Fire is one of my all-time favorite historical fiction series. It’s been years since I’ve read it, but I still have a clear memory of vivid characters, sweeping narratives, and truly moving stories. It’s a trilogy of three independent stories set during the Civil War, each told from different perspectives–Southern, Northern, and slave: Candle […]

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Reading Slumps and Recollections of a Mystery with a Fantastical Twist

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Have you ever experienced a reading slump? Lately I’ve been creeping through three different books, unable to actually commit to anything because NOTHING has felt right. Everything I’ve picked up has failed to really grasp my imagination-with the one recent exception of Inheritance, which finally drew me out of my funk, thank goodness. (Post on […]

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Cleopatra: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

.Reading time 6 minutes.

I don’t read a lot of nonfiction; I never have. Recently, I’ve been dabbling a bit–trying to broaden my reading range.  I’ve heard great things about Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. I just finished and I loved it! Schiff’s biography of Cleopatra is crazy good. Cleopatra’s full, publicly extravagant life […]

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