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Showing posts with label Books Historical Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Historical Fiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Book Review: The Sweetness of Water (2021). Nathan Harris.

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I picked up this recent first novel by Nathan Harris, which became an immediate bestseller and an award-winner last year, based on rave revi...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Book Reviews: Honorable Mentions: Fiction, Mysteries and Thrillers.

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Today I'm posting another one of my "Honorable Mentions" special features of short reviews of five related types of books.  To...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Book Review: The Lincoln Highway (2021). Amor Towles.

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The Lincoln Highway is the third and most recent bestselling historical novel by Amor Towles, who left a twenty-year career as an investmen...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Book Series Review: Outlander. Diana Gabaldon.

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I previously reviewed the ninth novel in the long series of Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone (2021), but...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Book Review: Varina (2018). Charles Frazier.

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This is a beautifully written, haunting novel about Varina Davis, the much-younger wife of Jefferson Davis, and First Lady of the Confederac...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Book Review: December 6 (2003). Martin Cruz Smith.

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In my ongoing search for reading and entertainment available from the library by e-book during the pandemic, I started looking for novels fr...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow (2016). Amor Towles.

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This is the beautifully written story of an elegant Russian gentleman and nobleman of the old order, Count Alexander Rostov, who becomes a ...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Book Review: The Good Lord Bird (2013). James McBride.

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This is an amusing and award-winning satire and fictional narrative of the last years of "Osawatomie" John Brown (the famous abol...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Book Reviews: Blackout (2010) and All Clear (2010). Connie Willis.

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I recently re-read these two thick science fiction and historical novels, which were originally intended to be one volume, but grew to be tw...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Book Review: News of the World (2016). Paulette Jiles.

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This is a very satisfying Western story about an old man, a veteran of several American wars of the early and mid-19th century, who travels ...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Book Review: Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone (2021). Book 9 of the Outlander Series. Diana Gabaldon.

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After a very long wait for legions of dedicated fans around the world, the latest installment in the epic Outlander series of novels by Dia...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Book Review: Unsheltered (2019). Barbara Kingsolver.

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Unsheltered is a beautifully woven tale of parallel lives in a small rust belt town, one thread in the late nineteenth century and the othe...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Book Review: Under Occupation (2019). Alan Furst.

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For those not familiar with Alan Furst, a quick summary:   Furst is an American novelist who has written more than a dozen novels about the ...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Book Review: Rules of Civility (2011). Amor Towles.

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This is Amor Towles's first novel, written as a first-person account of the life of an aspiring young woman from the lower classes, who ...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Book Review: Cloudmaker (2021). Malcolm Brooks.

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The setting for this unusual adventure novel is rural Montana in 1937.  Young Huck, a high school kid with a talent for building and fixing ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Book Review: The Rose Code (2021). Kate Quinn.

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A very good historical thriller and mystery about three very different young women in England who become friends while working at the Bletch...