Tag: #women’sfiction

• Book of the Month: Outlander

  The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 13, 2025

  Book/Author Highlight

  #colonialscotland, #dianegalbadon, #fantasy, #historicalfiction, #outlander, #scotsmen, #women’sfiction

• Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely Review

  In 1969 twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Benedictine nun. Gossip columnists and scandal sheets can’t get enough of the story. Why would a successful starlet take the veil? Was she hiding from…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 26, 2025

  Reviews

  #chicklit, #comingofage, #contemporaryfiction, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #hollywood, #rachelreads&reviews, #sarahmccoy, #spiritual, #whateverhappenedtolorilovely, #williammorrowbooks, #women’sfiction

• The Seventh Veil of Salome Review

  1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 31, 2025

  Reviews

  #biblicalretelling, #historicalfiction, #latinas, #oldhollywood, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #silviamorenogarcia, #theseventhveilofsalome, #women’sfiction

• Book of the Month: Lace

  “Which one of you bitches is my mother?”Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York’s Pierre Hotel to meet Lili — a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 31, 2025

  Book/Author Highlight

  #80s, #feminism, #harcourtpress, #lace, #rachelreads&reviews, #shirleyconran, #soaopera, #women’sfiction

• 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