Publisher and Publication Date: Simon and Schuster. February 2, 2021. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 409. Source: NetGalley, eBook, Kindle edition. I received a complimentary eBook copy from NetGalley, I was not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers of historical fiction, World War II, and enjoy women’s stories. Rating: Excellent. This book will be […]
(Review) Gentleman Jim: A Tale of Romance and Revenge by Mimi Matthews | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Perfectly Proper Press. November 10, 2020. Genre: General fiction, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Regency romance.Pages: 376. Source: I received a complimentary eBook copy from NetGalley and Perfectly Proper Press. I am not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers of proper Regency period romance stories. Rating: Very good.
(Review) Julie by Catherine Marshall | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Republished by Evergreen Farm, April 2017. Originally published 1984. Genre: Fiction. Source: Complimentary ebook from Just Read Tours and Evergreen Farm. I was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Very good. Landing page for the book tour @Just Read Tours. Links for purchase: Amazon Christian Book Goodreads Book Depository […]
Quote of the Week | Impressions In Ink
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston. April 18, 1859. Carl Schurz [1829-1906] Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Little, […]
(Review) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks. May 1, 2018. Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir. Pages: 288. Source: Self-purchase. Rating: Very Good. Amazon Summary: J.D. Vance has written a memoir of his life as a 2nd generation removed from eastern Kentucky. He and his parents were born and raised in Ohio. His grandparents moved from Kentucky to Ohio […]
(Review) Healing the Scars of Childhood Abuse: Moving beyond the Past into a Healthy Future by Gregory L. Jantz, PhD, with Ann McMurray | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Fleming H. Revell Company. August 2017. Genre: Christian nonfiction. Child abuse. Recovery. Source: Self-purchase. Rating: Excellent. Recommend. Audience: Readers who are an abuse survivor or want to help understand an abuse survivor.
Quote of the Week | Impressions In Ink
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,The earth, and every common sight,To me did seemAppareled in celestial light,The glory and the freshness of a dream.It is not now as it hath been of yore;-Turn wheresoe’er I may,By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.”
Quote of the Week | Impressions In Ink
“Everything was so strange-the stranger for its being night in the day-time, and the candles burning with a white flame, and looking raw and cold-that I read the words in the newspaper without knowing what they meant, and found myself reading the same words repeatedly. As it was of no use going on in that […]
Quote of the Week | Impressions In Ink
“Nothing is so like a soul as a bee. It goes from flower to flower as a soul from star to star, and it gathers honey as a soul gathers light.” Ninety-Three. Chapter 3. Victor Hugo [1802-1885] Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Little, Brown and Company. 1955. Page 498. Photo from Unsplash.
Quote of the Week | Impressions In Ink
I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berry to a thread;And when white moths were on the wing,And moth-like stars were flickering out,I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout.
(Review) Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How To Say No, To Take Control Of Your Life by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Zondervan. 1992. 2017. Genre: Christian nonfiction. Psychology. Pages: 352. Source: Self-purchase. Rating: Excellent.
(Review) The King James Men by Samantha Grosser | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Sam Grosser Books. November 20, 2018. Genre: Historical fiction. Christian fiction. Pages: 393. Source: I received a complimentary copy, but was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Recommend. Excellent. Audience: Readers who love: historical fiction, Christian fiction, history of the translation of the King James Bible, and 17th century […]
[Review] North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: Oxford University Press. 1854-55. My edition was published 1998. Genre: Fiction. Classic literature. Pages: 496. Format: Paperback. Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Readers of classic literature. Rating: Excellent.
[Review] The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott | Impressions In Ink
Publisher and Publication Date: W. W. Norton Company. June 2, 2020. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 400.Format: Paperback. Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Readers of sea adventures, sister relationships, travel, and romance. Rating: Good.