Tag: dual timeline

• Book News: Newly published!

  

  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/784323/the-white-octopus-hotel-by-alexandra-bell/ See my book review here!

  michardillo

  November 16, 2025

  books

  book-review, books, dual timeline, fiction, historical fiction, literature, mystery, novel, Penguin Random, Random House, reading

• Book Review: The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods (a/k/a Evie Gaughan)

  The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris is my second book by Evie Woods, although I am a bit confused whether #2 is the chicken or the egg. I loved her first (?) book, The Lost Bookshop. It was the perfect blend of a dual timeline, half contemporary and half historical, with a dash of…

  michardillo

  January 11, 2025

  books, Essay, food

  afternoon tea, Ann Napolitano, bakery, baking, book-review, books, bookstore, British, chocolate, coming of age, Compiegne, contemporary-fiction, cystic fibrosis, Dear Edward, dual timeline, English, Evie Gaughan, Evie Woods, fiction, food, France, Goodreads, grief, Harper 360, HarperCollins, hello-beautiful, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish, literature, magical realism, NetGalley, novel, Oprah, Paris, reading, Romance, tea, The Lost Bookshop, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, Within Arm’s Reach, writing

• Book Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

  Although I just returned from a week in Ireland, and two weeks in France, we were nowhere near Paris, due to the Olympics taking over the city. While the southwest of France where we exclusively traveled on this trip was beautiful, I do wish I could get to Paris for two things: more French food…

  michardillo

  August 19, 2024

  books, Essay

  books, domestic abuse, dual timeline, Evie Woods, fairy godmother, France, institutional abuse, Ireland, magical realism, Paris, reading, Ruth Reichl, Shakespeare and Company, St. Stephen’s Green, The Lost Bookshop, The Paris Novel, Tumbleweed, writing