Tag: nonfiction
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Book Review-Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe by Kate Messner and Margaret E. Powell, illustrated by Erin K. Robinson
Kate Messner is one of my favorite authors and when I see one of her new books, I just have to grab it and read it right away. Today one of her books was offered as a Kindle Special Deal, and I did just that. Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann…
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Book Review: You’re Not a Real Dog Owner Until … by Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield
As much as I love reading, I am relatively new to graphic novels, comics, manga, and other illustrated works. I requested an ARC of You’re Not a Real Dog Owner Until … by Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield to broaden my perspective on this mixed media form of literature. (It didn’t hurt that I am…
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Book Review: The Page Turner by Viola Shipman
Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ebook ARC of this new novel, by an author new to me. Viola Shipman is the pen name for memoirist Wade Rouse. Rouse uses the pen name Viola Shipman for his fiction to honor his grandmother, and traces of that sentiment are found in this…
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A Very Merry Bookmas!
It’s Christmas Day! I’ve had a wonderful Advent and now Christmas season with my family and close friends. It has to be the most relaxed Christmas I’ve ever had, having retired from teaching this January 12, 2024, I came into Advent this year without reams of papers to grade, midterms to create and then grade,…
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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,…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 