Michelle Moran has a gift for making history come alive. She makes people who lived over one hundred years ago seem as though they are living and breathing now. Her latest book The Second Empress: A Novel Of Napoleon’s Court takes on the period of time when Marie-Louise, a Hapsburg princess became the empress of France. […]
Allison: Echoes of Titanic | Mindy Starns Clark and John Campbell Clark | Book Review
April 10, 2013
Last year when I was at BEA, I was just aimlessly walking around when a book that was on display caught my attention. I backtracked a little bit to the booth and picked up the book and read the description on the back. It was called Echoes of Titanic, and it turned out the authors […]
Jerusalem: A Family Portrait | Boaz Yakin | Book Review
April 9, 2013
Graphic novels based on history are pretty much my favorite. I mean, straight up, I love most graphic novels and comics and if you put one in front of me, I won’t exactly say no. When I saw Jerusalem: A Family Portrait by filmmaker Boaz Yakin illustrated by Nick Bertozzi on Netgalley, I knew I had […]
Shadow On The Crown | Patricia Bracewell | Audiobook Review
April 5, 2013
Why Did I Listen To This Audiobook: As soon as I saw Shadow On The Crown by Patricia Bracewell in a review pitch, I absolutely knew I had to listen to the audiobook. You see, I filled up a ton of my college career with medieval history classes, looking back I am pretty sure I took […]
Curse Of The Blue Tattoo | LA Meyer | Audiobook Review
April 2, 2013
FYI this review contains few minor spoilers for Bloody Jack Friends, I am having WAY too much fun with this different style of reviewing audiobooks, so I thought I would keep it up for the ones I have waiting to be reviewed. Plus the style makes it easier for me to write the review. So, Curse […]
Strands Of Bronze And Gold | Jane Nickerson | Book Review
March 18, 2013
I am almost always down for fairy tale retellings. Seriously — if a book has just a whiff of being a retelling, I will get my hands on it, most especially if the book is young adult. So it follows that I would be BEYOND excited for Strands of Bronze And Gold by Jane Nickerson, a […]