My book journey so far this year has covered a lot of heavy subjects (murder, abuse, and WII on multiple occasions), so I was looking for something light to change things up a bit. I love a good romance novel every once in a while, and when I saw that The Secret Ingredient was published by Harlequin, … Continue reading Book Review: The Secret Ingredient
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey, which will be available in stores on February 5, 2019, tells the journey of three women from Boston in 1944 who joined the Red Cross Clubmobile girls in order to try to track down one of their fiancés, who has been lost at war for months. It's the third and … Continue reading Book Review: The Beantown Girls
The next installment in my unintentional historical-fiction journey this month brings me to Paris in the 1940s, just as Hitler and the Nazis have taken over France. The Parisians follows three women who do what it takes to survive in the city they love during the tumultuous World War II. SynopsisParis, 1940. The Nazis have occupied … Continue reading Book Review: The Parisians
My second book of the year brings me to England, a place that I was lucky enough to call home for eight months back when I was in university. Though I was living an hour and a half outside of London, I got up to the capital a few times a month and truly fell … Continue reading Book Review: The Light Over London
I will admit that I came across this book knowing absolutely nothing about it other than the description on the book jacket. (And that beautiful cover—it's breathtaking!). The book was recommended to me by a number of people in my book club, and it happened to be on sale in the Kindle store over the … Continue reading Book Review: The Summer Wives
The Modest Reader 