Tag: #historicalfiction

• 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.

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 23, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

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

• Isabel and the Rogue Review

  Isabel Luna is like the Jan Brady of the Brady Bunch. A middle sister longing to break out of everyone’s shadow and be more than people think of her. That’s what the author initially believed of her creation too, but as you get to know Isabel, the reader and one Captain Sirius Dovan learn there’s…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 13, 2024

  Reviews

  #berkleyromance, #fiction, #historicalfiction, #isabelandtherogue, #lianadelarosa, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #romance, #thelunasisters, book-review, books, historical-fiction

• Sandra Proudman Interview

  Sandra Proudman is a proud Mexican-American author and literary agent at the Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency. She graciously took the time to answer my questions in her first interview for her debut novel, Salvación. Enjoy! 1. To start from the beginning, who are some of your literary inspirations? It’d be too hard to just…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 2, 2024

  Interview

  #fantasy, #fiction, #historicalfantasy, #historicalfiction, #latinx, #mexicanamerican, #rachelreads&reviews, #relitremix, #salvación, #sandraproudman, #YA, books, literary-agents, publishing, writing

• Book Highlight: Our Narrow Hiding Places

  While in my happy place of Barnes & Noble, my mother and I stumbled upon an author’s promotion. Kristopher Jansma, like the rest of us, got to spend quality family time during the pandemic and it is in this isolation he got to learn more about his grandmother’s history in the Netherlands where she endured…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 29, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #historicalfiction, #holocaust, #holocaustnarratives, #kristopherjansma, #nazioccupation, #ournarrowhidingplaces, #rachelreads&reviews, books, history, nazis, Reviews

• Ranking Fifth Avenue Rebels

  Shupe’s latest Gilded Age romance delivers on opulence, scandals and simmering romance so let’s get to it.

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 22, 2024

  Rankings

  #avonbooks, #fifthavenuerebels, #gildedageromance, #historicalfiction, #historicalromance, #joannashupe, #rachelreads&reviews, #thebridegoesrogue, #thedukegetseven, #theheiresshunt, #theladygetslucky

• Top 5 Caroline Years

  After reading Laura Ingells Wilder’s classic Little House on the Prarie series, and then the sequel inspired by her daughter, The Rose Years. It’s only fitting to go back in time to mid 19th century to see the coming of age of Caroline Quiner, the beloved Ma of America’s famous pioneer family.

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 17, 2024

  Top 5

  #acrosstherollingriver, #celiawilkins, #historicalfiction, #littlecitybythelake, #littlehouseoftheirown, #littlehouseontheprarie, #littletowninthecrossroads, #lowergrade, #mariadwilkes, #ontopofconcordhill, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic, #thecarolineyears

• Vanessa Riley Interview

  Vanessa is the prolific, best-selling author of the Lady Worthing Mysteries series, Queen of Exiles, Rogues and Remarkable Women, and much more. From mystery to historical to regency, Vanessa puts strong, dynamic Black women and women of color in her novels in all their joy and complexity. She graciously took the time to answer my…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 5, 2024

  Interview

  #africanamericanhistory, #diversereads, #historicalfiction, #historicalmystery, #islandqueen, #ladyworthingmystery, #mystery, #queenofexiles, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #sistermotherwarrior, #vanessariley, #womenofcolor

• Book of the Month: Lessons in Chemistry

  Don’t let that gorgeous hair and sassy look fool you, Elizabeth Zott takes chemistry and cooking seriously. In fact, she takes everything seriously. She rarely smiles, and she has good reason to. Being a female scientist in the early 60s is just hell. No respect, constant comments from men and women, no one likes her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  August 15, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #bonniegarmus, #doubledaybooks, #historicalfiction, #lessonsinchemistry, #rachelreads&reviews, #women’sfiction

• July Books

  Bloomability by Sharon Creech I’ve always liked the cover of this book but I never actually read it. Until this month that is. It’s about a young girl, Domenica aka Dinnie who’s been kidnapped to Switzerland. Well, not really kidnapped. Her family is having lots of dysfunction that the eleven year old doesn’t comprehend so…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 31, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #avi, #bloomability, #chrisgrabenstein, #don'tyouknowthere'sawaron, #historicalfiction, #humor, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #sharoncreech, #welcometowonderland

• Book of the Month: The Duke and I

  After my friend’s sister insisted she choose this book for book club with the “It’s like a modern Jane Austen,” we finished and my friend’s expectations fell short. Very short. As she kept saying when we finished “This isn’t like Jane Austen at all. Jane Austen didn’t write about horny people. I mean, they probably…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 29, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #bridgertons, #historicalfiction, #historicalromance, #juliaquinn, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #thedukeandI