Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book combines science fiction and historical fiction in a time travel drama, with academia and the plague.…
I was excited to read The Bombay Prince (A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 3) by Sujata Massey because I really enjoyed…
Excerpt from my review over on Online Book Club a while ago: Apollo’s Raven by Linnea Tanner is historical fantasy,…
Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King tells the story of a kitchen slave, Thrasius, and his owner, the gourmand Apicius.…
Although I raised my hand for Juliet in my high school English class’ dramatic reading, I was assigned the Nurse.…
The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey, blends two of my favorite things to read about: a vibrant, distant,…
By now, whenever Marcus and Perilla start talking about having a relaxing time, I'm pretty sure someone's about to find…
I think I found Gay Courter's Flowers in the Blood on Kveller's list of historical fiction, as part of my…
I have a new review up on ManyBooks: Only Our Destiny by A. G. Russo takes readers through the tragedies and…
The Paying Guests was on my library requests list so long that I forgot who recommended it or why, so…
Do you know how much I wanted to read Philippa Gregory's new novel Tidelands? I requested it on NetGalley, but then…
Rouge, by Richard Kirshenbaum, is the story of rival cosmetics empires, as well as a look at appearances and perceptions. The…
Stephanie Barron's new novel, That Churchill Woman blends historical scandal with a manners novel. Throughout the book, Jennie Jerome shows…
I found The Gown in a used-book shop in Honolulu. The cover calls it a novel of the royal wedding,…
The beginning of The Chef's Secret starts a bit slowly, or maybe I was just disappointed that it wasn't set in ancient…
In the dark days after the Nanjing Massacre, as the Second Sino-Japanese War is turning into World War II, an…
The popular BBC show Call The Midwife tells the story of young nurse, Jenny Lee, and her fellow midwives at…
The Candle-Factory Girl was a perfectly pleasant working-class family drama, but including some of the worst historical world-building I've ever…
Before receiving David Wishart's new novel Solid Citizens, I'd already read Ovid, Germanicus, and Sejanus, also Roman mysteries by the…
Surprise Me is another delightful Sophie Kinsella novel, this time a married chicklit novel instead of a hot mess single…
Pictured here is my latest round of holds: More Austen spinoffs, a Hamlet Choose-Your-Own-Adventure I heard about on Tumblr, it's…
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe tells the story of Anita Hemmings, a student who passes as white to attend…
David Wishart's "Finished Business" is the sixteenth in the series, so Marcus Corvinus is aging a bit now, and becomes…