“The human heart has hidden treasures,In secret kept, in silence sealed;-The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,Whose charms were broken if revealed.” Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855.“Evening Solace.” 1846. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955.

Publisher and Publication Date: Interstice Press. December 20, 2019. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 294.Source: I received a complimentary Apple eBook copy from the publisher, I was not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers of women and literature, historical fiction, and espionage/spy stories. Rating: Very good. Book One: Promise Season Book Two: Promise Thief […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classic. First published in 1943. My paperback copy-2005. Genre: Classic literature. Coming of age story. Comfort read. Women and literature. Pages: 493. Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Readers of classic literature. Rating: Excellent. Amazon link Have you read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? I’ve read it 3 or 4 times. […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Harper One. 1940. 1996. 2012. Genre: Christian nonfiction. Pages: 162. Source: Self-purchase. Rating: Very good.

Publisher and Publication Date: Interstice Press. December 20, 2019. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 294.Source: I received a complimentary Apple eBook copy from the publisher, I was not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers of women and literature, historical fiction, and espionage/spy stories. Rating: Very good. Book One: Promise Season Book Two: Promise Thief […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Interstice Press. December 20, 2019. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 294.Source: I received a complimentary Apple eBook copy from the publisher, I was not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers of women and literature, historical fiction, and espionage/spy stories. Rating: Very good. Book One: Promise Season Book Two: Promise Thief […]

Publisher and Publication Date: WaterBrook. August 29, 2017. Genre: Historical fiction, frontier and pioneer life, romance, Colonial America. Pages: 390. Source: Complimentary copy from Blogging for Books for this review. I was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Very good to Excellent. 4 1/2 stars. Amazon Summary: The year is 1774. Philip and […]

“We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tellof saddest thought.” Stanza 18. “To A Skylark” [1821]Percy Bysshe Shelley [1792-1822] Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Little, Brown and Company. 1955. Page 467. Photo from Unsplash.

Publisher and Publication Date: Poesy Quill. 2nd edition 2019. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 287. Format: Kindle Unlimited e-book. Source: I’m a member of Kindle Unlimited and this book is in their selection. Audience: Readers of historical fiction. Readers of Katherine of Aragon and Tudor history. Rating: Excellent. Link @ Amazon About the Author: Wendy J. […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Baker Books. First published 1997. Re-published January 2018. Genre: Christian non-fiction. Pages: 240. Source: Complimentary paperback copy from Baker Books. I was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Excellent. Amazon To read an excerpt: Willing To Believe. Link to read more information about Willing To Believe. R. C. Sproul (1939-2017) […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Harper. September 4, 2018. Genre: Historical fiction. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on a true story. Pages: 273.Format: Paperback.Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Readers of historical fiction with a subject of the Holocaust. Rating: Very good. Link @ Amazon. Link @ Audible. Link @ Barnes and Noble. Heather Morris website. Heather Morris’s […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Crossway. 2019. Genre: Christian nonfiction. Suffering. Lament. Pages: 224. Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Christian readers who are going through suffering. Rating: Excellent. Amazon link Mark Vroegop’s website And his Facebook page Author info: Mark Vroegop (MDiv, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor of College Park Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He […]

January 2020 marks my thirteenth year in blogging and writing book reviews. I spent over ten years at Blogger. I moved over to WordPress two and a half years ago. For those of you who are new to my blog, my posts are sporadic. Many of my blogging friends post everyday or a few times […]

It is Saturday afternoon in my little area of the world. The temperature is 88. Clear sky, bright, and sunny. No rain over the past several days. My husband is working. With the exception of a visit with my son Paul and his family who came over in the late morning for a brief visit. […]