Month: December 2018

My Top 5 Favorite Books of 2018

  2018: The year of “only by a whisker” books. Yes, the time has come once again for me to give you all my roundup of my favorite books published over this past year. I have to warn you however, I’m going to cheat a tiny bit with my non-fiction book this year. See, although … Continue reading My Top 5 Favorite Books of 2018 →

Blog Tour Free Giveaway for The War Between Us by Sarah Creviston Lee

Blog Tour for "The War Between Us" by Sarah Creviston Lee Publication Date: December 14, 2015 Paperback & eBook; 330 Pages Genre: Historical Fiction Editor's Choice Award from the Historical Novel Society. Alex Moon is not the enemy. Six months after Pearl Harbor's tragedy, Korean American Alex Moon is sent away from his home in … Continue reading Blog Tour Free Giveaway for The War Between Us by Sarah Creviston Lee →

The Rise and Fall of Ragtime

Book Review of Temptation Rag: A Novel by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard. Back in the late 19th century in America, the latest rage was ragtime music. While the first name that might come to mind for us today is Scott Joplin, the origins of this musical genre predated him by quite a bit. In the beginning … Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Ragtime →

Women’s Wartime Communications

Book review of "Girls on the Line" a Novel by Aimie K. Runyan. The women of the US Army’s Signal Corps were known as the “Hello Girls,” and their deployment to France at the end of 1917 was considered both controversial and expedient. When Ruby Wager’s brother is one of the first casualties of the … Continue reading Women’s Wartime Communications →

The Journey Begins Again

In the beginning, I started a blog on Blogger. Now, after over five years on Blogger, and after having my URL from that site marked as "spam" by Facebook and against their "Community Standards," I've decided it is time to put out the cash and start my own website for my blog. So... Here goes … Continue reading The Journey Begins Again →