Tag: historical fiction

Monthly Wrap Up June 2025

I’m glad that May was an easier month for me, because it gave me some power to get through the stressful month of June. I spent a lot of time preparing for and having procedures, getting bloodwork, and visiting treatment providers. In between, I prioritized rest and relaxation […]

State Of The ARC #52

I finished June with 13 ARCs left to be read.  If you follow my blog, you might have noticed that I didn’t do a lot of posting this month. I was caught up with dealing with health issues again, and decided to just put blog posts on pause […]

Sons And Daughters By Chaim Grade

Sons and Daughters From “one of the greatest—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity “It is me the prophet laments when he […]

The Master Jeweler By Weina Dai Randel

The Master Jeweler Thank you to NetGalley and Brilliance Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Night Angels comes the epic story of a brilliant young woman’s dangerous rise to fame in the perilous world […]

TTT – Bookish Wishes

It’s Tuesday again, and I’m going to be aiming to get my blog hopping done earlier in the week. Last week I had an endoscopy/colonoscopy on Wednesday, and I just basically laid low all week long. I did manage to get a haircut that was long overdue, and […]

Monthly Wrap Up May 2025

May was finally more of a laid back month, and I’ve been trying my best to get caught up on some things I neglected in April. I completed a side project that I had volunteered to do through a Jewish Genealogy website, transcribing records so they can be […]

TTT – Summer Means Swimming!

If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere like me, we’re heading into the long, hot days of summer. This week’s prompt is a summer-themed freebie, and my all-time favorite thing about any summer ever was the chance to go swimming. It didn’t matter whether it was a pool, a […]

State Of The ARC #51

I finished April with 13 ARCs left to be read.  May flew by for me. It was a busy but ultimately joyful month. I’ve been more assertive about needing a little bit of time to rest between tasks I used to be able to do regularly. My mom […]

First Lines Fridays: May 23, 2025

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Late sixth century, Nasca Valley, Atacama Desert, western […]