Tag: Historical Fiction
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The Scarlet Letter
I’m on a classics reading spree; if that’s not your thing you can skip this post.😘 And those of you who don’t like spoilers can turn the page too.👋 The Scarlet Letter takes place in the mid 1600’s in Puritan world of Boston, Massachusetts. Most people caught in adultery would have been hung on the…
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How You Can Read Classics
After reading several books lately that didn’t offer much, I was disillusioned. After abandoning books half way through, I was afraid I’d have nothing to review here. To fix this, I made a goal to read better books. I decided to start by reading twenty pages and stopping to consider if I want to continue.…
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The Remains of the Day
This lovely, short book is listed in a recent post about great summer books. I would like to tell you more about it. I happened across a description of The Remains of the Day where the reviewer said it was about “an English butler reflecting on his life of service.” As it happens, my word…
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Timeless Summer Reads: Connecting Past and Present
The air wafting through my open window has a special feel today. It’s drowsy, dreamy and transportive. It is blowing from some far away childhood summer afternoon, and brings with it the feelings and thoughts of those days, taking me back to imaginary summers long before I was born. It brings timeless thoughts and feelings…
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Author Spotlight Part 2: Jane Austen
I like Jane Austen’s stories because of the courtly the manners or lack thereof, the old language and big words, the wit and humor. These heroines had standards to live up to. And the characters are so like people we live with, work with and socialize with today. Each one is a study in human…
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A Fall of Marigolds
By Susan Meissner, 2014, 400 pages, historical fiction A Fall of Marigolds is a dual time-line story of two women touched by tragedy and connected by a silk scarf with marigolds woven across it. The majority of the story follows Clara Wood, who saw the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911. There she lost a person…
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A Piece of the World
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, 2017, 304 pages A Piece of the World is a fictional account of the life of Christina Olsen’s life. Characters, places and events really happened but the inner life, drama and complexities were created from the author’s imagination. The story begins on a July afternoon in…
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michelle Richardson, 2019, historical fiction, 320 pages Cussy Mary Martin’s father wants to see her married and settled before he leaves her an orphan. He has miner’s lung and doesn’t expect to live long. But Cussy has a rare genetic disorder that makes her skin blue, and most of the community think she isn’t…
So She Reads 