pickI was very curious about a new release from Lois Lowry! This alternates between the author recalling how she learned about the Windeby body and some of her decision-making process in writing the story and the story itself. I‘m having a hard time deciding if I liked the author‘s interludes or not, but leaning towards not, so a low pick for me.
Saturday morning breakfast and a new book! This is a story of the Holodomor in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
#MiddleGrade #MiddleGradeMarch #Ukraine #BookAndBreakfast
“Set against Nantucket‘s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear…”
FULL SPOTLIGHT: https://tinyurl.com/99z56zpw
@juliegerstenblatt
@HarperCollins
so-soReview is up. Check it out!
https://reecaspieces.com/2023/03/17/daughters-of-nantucket-by-julie-gerstenblatt...
pickWELL F*CK! Historical fiction.... done right!
This was horrifying, more so that it is based on the true events of the Witch Hunts and Witch Trials of Vardo. It's disgusting to think of the horrors these women were subject to.
Bergman has created such a vivid and atmospheric story that you feel you are right there in 1662 Norway. I loved Ingeborg and Maren so much, I think Maren may be my new favourite literary character - what an absolute badass!
Thank goodness my library had a copy of the third book in this series.
“In her sweeping debut, American novelist and Putin resistance scholar Kristen Loesch delivers a timely and topical novel—one that spans three generations of Russian history, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union.”
FULL SPOTLIGHT: https://tinyurl.com/bdcnyvz5
@kristenloeschwriter
@berkleypub
pick𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒚
𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 by 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐭 depicts several women's lives intersecting & forever changing. In 1846, Nantucket was an isolated village where wives remained for years at a time as husbands sailed the sea in search of whales, & were forced to rely on each other to survive when a great fire swept through the town, destroying everything & everyone in its path. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickA solid debut - when slavery is abolished in 1834 the Caribbean plantation owners institute a mandatory 6 year “apprenticeship” where the slaves MUST remain & work under the same harsh conditions. Rachel, a slave woman decides to put her faith in GD and escapes #Barbados to go & search for her 5 children who were taken from her. A moving & powerful story of a mother‘s love. Based on real events. #ReadingTheAmericas23 #Trinidad
