Month: April 2019

Photos of Female Fighters

Book Review for “Women on the Front Lines: Inside the Combat Units of the Israeli Army” by Debbie Zimelman. Yes, this is a photography book, and yes, I've never reviewed one of these before. But you see... Debbie is a personal friend of mine. We were work colleagues for a while many years ago, just … Continue reading Photos of Female Fighters →

Top Ten Tuesday for April 23, 2019 – My first 10 Book Reviews!

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday for April 23, 2019 – My first 10 Book Reviews! →

Going for the Second Chances.

Book Review of "Old Baggage" by Lissa Evans. It is 1928, and Matilda (aka Mattie) Simpkin is living with her old friend from her Women's Suffrage Campaign days, Florrie Lee (lovingly known as “The Flea”), and still giving lectures on the suffragette movement, and why it is still important.

Literary Musings: Biographical, Historical Fiction.

A New Trend or an Old Friend? One of my friends, Barbara Probst, who is a member of the Facebook group In Literary Love with me, recently put up a post on that page asking the following question of the group: “What does everyone think about this new hybrid genre that's a cross between fiction … Continue reading Literary Musings: Biographical, Historical Fiction. →