Tag: nonfiction
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Book Review—The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero by Francelle Bradford White
When I look back through the list of nonfiction books I’ve read over the last few years, I am drawn to those titles where the author disseminates information about a topic in a narrative style not unlike a piece of historical fiction. At the top of that list (for me) would be: and others. These…
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Book Review—Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones
Most writers are also avid readers. However, not everyone who reads a lot can write, or even wants to write at all. In fact, there are some people who are great writers who don’t read much at all. This book, Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones, is by an avid…
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Book Review: Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges by Tom Quinn
Full disclosure here: I’ve always been fascinated by Britain’s Royal Family. At one point in the not too distant past I had an entire shelf of biographies of members of this family, dating all the way back to Henry VIII and coming forward to multiple books on the Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallis,…
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Book Review – Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French
First, thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of this work of nonfiction, a history of sorts of Wallis Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, and the time she spent in China in the mid-1920s. I have long been drawn to nonfiction works about the Royal Family of Great Britain and…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 