Rachel Reads & Reviews

Book of the Month: Gone with the Wind

Ah yes, the book that has lived for almost a hundred years and it makes one feel like they’ve lived through a hundred years. Yes, I’m talking about Margaret Mitchell’s decade-spanning work, Gone with the Wind, covering before, during and after the Civil War from the POV of one stubborn hellion, Scarlet O’Hara. There’s not…

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December 18, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#antebellumsouth, #civilwarsouth, #classics, #gonewiththewind, #historicalfiction, #margaretmitchell, #rachelreads&reviews

Ranking Hundred Oaks

After vicariously reading the Pretty Tough series, I was in the mood for more girls in sports narratives. Again, of which there are surprisingly few series dedicated to the premise. The only other one I remembered was this. I wanted to read it when it was first coming out but I never got round to…

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December 15, 2024

Rankings

#breatheanniebreathe, #catchingjordan, #comingupforair, #contemporayromance, #defendingtaylor, #hundredoaks, #jessesgirl, #mirandakenneally, #rachelreads&reviews, #racingsavannah, #sourcebooks, #sourcebooksfire, #sports, #stealingparker, #thingsIcan’tforget

America’s First Daughter Review

After thoroughly enjoying Dray and Kamoie’s book on the Hamiltos, I had to go read their first book together about Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy’ Jefferson and how she shaped the founding father we know today. It is always said that behind every great man, there was a great woman and this is especially prominant…

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December 1, 2024

Book/Author Highlight, Reviews

#america’sfirstdaughter, #hachettebookgroup, #historicalfiction, #laurakamoie, #rachelreads&reviews, #revolutionarywar, #stephaniedray, #thefoundingfathers, #williammorrow, #williammorrowbooks

Nov Books

Private Label by Kelly Yang A perfect title for the private things that Serene and Lian hide from their peers and their family in this moving, coming of age romance. Serene is the daughter of single mom and major fashion designer, Lily Lee. Her real name is Liu but her mother’s Board of Trustees thought…

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November 30, 2024

Book Suggestions

#askmymoodringhowIfeel, #avi, #dianalopez, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #katherineteaganbooks, #kellyyang, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #middlegrade, #privatelabel, #realisticfiction, #trueconfessionsofcharlottedoyle, #YA

Book of the Month: Crocodile on the Sandbank

A bit of The Mummy, a bit of a stand-alone Agatha Christie, the adventures of Amelia Peabody feature a plain, spinster along the lines of Jane Eyre. Albeit a more sprightly Jane Eyre what with the shooting, escavating and mummy-hunting. Let me back up a bit with the death of Amelia’s father, she decides to…

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November 29, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#ameliapeabodymystery, #crocodileonthesandbank, #egypt, #elizabethpeters, #hachettebookgroup, #historicalfiction, #mystery, #rachelreads&reviews

Ranking The Secrets of Charlotte Street

This was really, really hard. In fact, I almost considered not ranking the series because each of them were so well-written that the minor flaws made it impossible to rank one above the other because they were insurmountable compared to what Peckham did right in subverting tropes and creating three-dimensional characters of complexities and layers.…

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November 25, 2024

Rankings

#1700s, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #romance, #scarlettpeckham, #thedukeIruined, #theearlItempted, #theeroticsofcharlottestreet, #thelordIleft, #thesecretsofcharlottestreet

Book of the Month: The Great Alone

Ah the great Alaskan wilderness, a place to reconnect to nature. Or in Hannah’s novel, a place where family demons come to tear them apart with no chance for help in the middle of a blizzard. Aka a nightmare in my thinking.

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November 23, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#alaska, #anovel, #drama, #familycrisis, #historicalfiction, #kristinhannah, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #thegreatalone

Finished Nancy Drew!

It only took over a year and browsing through Internet archives to get to the final two Nancy Drew books that escaped my grasp-The Clue of the Whistling Bapipes and The Strange Message in the Parchment. Oddly enough, they both involve a lot of sheep. The Bagpipes have Nancy heading to her ancestral Scotland homeland…

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November 19, 2024

Book Suggestions

#carolynkeene, #nancydrew, #nancydrewmysteries, #rachelreads&reviews, #theclueofthewhistlingbagpipes, #thestrangemessageintheparchment

Ranking Pretty Tough

I’m not a sports person as any of my friends would attest. Not watching and not doing. I’m not athletic and even if I were, my 4 foot nothing size would make me an easy tackle or block or whatever the term is. But sometimes I get struck by a vicarious need to read a…

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November 18, 2024

Rankings