Women Helping with Wartime Hardships.

Book Review for “Yours Cheerfully” by AJ Pearce. Summary: "London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman’s Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles (now stationed back in the UK) … Continue reading Women Helping with Wartime Hardships. →

#SomethingDifferent #11 – Another Poem by The Chocolate Lady!

Once upon a time, I wrote poetry! Somewhere deep inside my #LetsDiscuss2020 #DiscussionSunday post about my regimen vs. impulse posting, I posed the question if anyone thought it might be fun for me to post some of my poetry here on my blog. Well, a couple of people showed interest, and I appreciate that. As … Continue reading #SomethingDifferent #11 – Another Poem by The Chocolate Lady! →

#LetsDiscuss2021 #8 – Reading Slumps – #DiscussionSunday.

I was so busy reading, DNF-ing books, and adding reviews and other content, that I totally missed the July 16th Let’s Talk Bookish weekly meme hosted by Rukky@EternityBooks and Dani @Literary Lion, which had the following topic: What are the best ways to get over reading slumps? (Suggested by Rafaela @ The Portugese Bibliophile) But... … Continue reading #LetsDiscuss2021 #8 – Reading Slumps – #DiscussionSunday. →

Finding Adventure Everywhere.

Book Review for “Three Words for Goodbye” by Heather Webb & Hazel Gaynor. Summary: "New York, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe—together. They are to deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she … Continue reading Finding Adventure Everywhere. →

TCL’s Shelf Control #1 – B is for Boyd.

Shelf Control is a weekly celebration hosted by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies, of the unread books on our shelves. Lisa says: "Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! For more … Continue reading TCL’s Shelf Control #1 – B is for Boyd. →

TCL’s #SixinSix for 2021.

What is Six in Six? According to Jo @ The Book Blogger, "the idea [for Six in Six is] that as the end of June approaches and we are then halfway through the year, let us share the books we have read in those first 6 months. In fact let’s share 6 books in 6 … Continue reading TCL’s #SixinSix for 2021. →

A Doubtful Family.

Book Review for “The Believers” by Zoë Heller. Summary: "When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the … Continue reading A Doubtful Family. →

Fight or Flight?

Book Review for “A Funeral for an Owl” by Jane Davis. Summary: "A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. ... The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she … Continue reading Fight or Flight? →

#ShortStorySunday – Rough Rides.

Book Review for “Short Dog: Cab Driver Stories from the L.A. Streets” by Dan Fante. According to the blurbs about this book: “Dan Fante lived the stories he wrote. His voice has the immediacy of a stranger of the next barstool, of a friend who lives on the edge. As he writes in Short Dog … Continue reading #ShortStorySunday – Rough Rides. →

Tessa Takes a Second Stab.

Book Review for “Murder in Married Life” (Tessa Crichton Mysteries #2) by Anne Morice. Summary: "The soignée actress Tessa Crichton would rather be shopping and generally luxuriating in the pleasure of being newly married. However, she is soon embroiled in a plot involving an old acquaintance (murdered) and a friend (blackmailed). Being as shrewd as … Continue reading Tessa Takes a Second Stab. →