Tag: history

Six Wild Crowns By Holly Race

Six Wild Crowns Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. The king has been appointed by god to marry six queens. Those six queens are all that stand between the kingdom of Elben and […]

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 […]

First Lines Fridays: April 24, 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: “Avital Cohen wasn’t wearing underwear. Standing behind the […]

Ghost Of A Holy War By Yardena Schwartz

Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of […]

WWW Wednesday 3.19.24

I was hoping to be able to get a review posted for today, but it hasn’t quite worked out that way. Instead, I decided to post a familiar template to many of my fellow bloggers: WWW Wednesday. WWW is a weekly meme hosted at Taking on a World […]