The February (yes I read it in February don't judge the scheduling) book for the Christian Fiction Reading Challenge is something different from January. The English Masterpiece is art history, the merge of time after the World Wars, and the start of women finding their way into corporate ...
20th Century
BOOK REVIEW: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
I'm really struggling to write this review. As we all know by now (or remember as again it's been a hot minute) I review from the heart, not the brain, and tend to have my best thoughts immediately after. However, this is yet another book that kinda sticks with you and requires some processing. So ...
BOOK REVIEW: Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson
Truth. I love dual time line stories, when they are done right. Truth. World War 2 era fiction is a favorite historical time period of mine (after Civil War - hello Gone with the Wind!). Truth. Nothing can be wrong when a character in a book happens to own a book store, I mean all the books IN ...
BOOK REVIEW: In Places Hidden by Tracie Peterson
I was captured by the description of this book and the idea of a trilogy set in turn of the century San Francisco. I was interested in a town I know little about during a time period that seems to be ignored in fiction as it is before WWI and after the Civil War. Then I started reading. I was ...
BOOK REVIEW: Surviving Uncle Hittler by Dorothea Wollin Null
Let me tell you a story about this book. I was having a discussion with Kristin (of course) about the idea that there are many fictional (and nonfiction as well) books about WW2 from the prospective of Jewish individuals, non-Germany individuals, pretty much anyone but a German individual. I ...