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: “Months later, when the dog was gone too, […]
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the binds that tie four generations of women. Gabriela’s mother Luna is the most beautiful woman in all of Jerusalem, though her famed beauty and charm […]
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 […]
This week’s prompt is a genre-related freebie, where we get to pick a specific genre and then build a freebie around it. And while I read and post about fantasy a lot, I want to take it in a different direction this time. My sister-in-law was visiting me […]
A Death in Jerusalem Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, blood, grief, Holocaust imagery, mention of death, PTSD, suicide, mention of death of a child, misogyny, homophobia, murder, torture, mention of […]
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