Alva Smith Vanderbilt sets her sights on William Kissam Vanderbilt out of pure necessity. With her father gone and little beyond her looks and an old family name to recommend her, Alva has to marry very well or else see her sisters starve. Initially shunned by the Astors and the rest of the Knickerbocker set, Alva […]
My Top Reads for 2018
My favorite part of every year – my top picks for the best books I read over the past year. To me, the only good thing about winter weather is the excuse to stay by the fire and read more! If you have read or do read some of these, please jump in and share […]
Book review: The Girl He Used to Know by T. Garvis Graves
Annika and Jonathan connect over chess at the University of Illinois during their senior years. Annika – a home schooled, socially awkward, book loving girl – finds love and acceptance with the kind Jonathan, who works night shifts at a bar and hopes to pursue a job in financial banking in New York City. When […]
Book review: The Glass Ocean by Willig, White, and Williams
A multi-perspective, dual-period story of espionage, love, and greed aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German torpedo off the coast of Ireland in May 1915. Caroline and Gilbert Hochstetter, wealthy New Yorkers, Robert Langford, an aristocratic Brit, Patrick, the Irish steward, and Tess, a petty thief and art forger are thrown together […]
Book review: “Dark Queen Rising” by Paul Doherty
A fictionalized account of the Wars of the Roses beginning at the Battle of Tewkesbury largely from Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond’s, point of view. Christopher Urswicke and Reginald Bray, retainers of the countess, work to help Margaret shield her son Henry Tudor from the triumphant Yorkists who are out to annihilate anyone that could […]
Book review: “Uneasy Lies the Crown” by Tasha Alexander
In this, the 13th installation of the Lady Emily mystery series, Colin makes it to the bedside of Queen Victoria who gives him a cryptic message shortly before her death. She passes soon after, making her eldest son Edward VII. On the day of Victoria’s funeral, a man is found dead in the Tower of […]
Book review: “Treacherous is the Night” by Anna Lee Huber
Anna Lee Huber, author of the Lady Darby mystery series, returns with book 2 of her WWI Verity Kent series (book 1’s review can be found here). Now reunited with the husband she once thought lost in the war, Verity Kent begins the monumental task of rebuilding her marriage and putting the war behind them […]
Book review: “Summer I Met Jack” by Michelle Gable
*This review originally appeared in the Historical Novels Review and can be found online here. Alicia Darr arrives in America, a displaced person hoping to find a new life after the war. Her cultured, privileged childhood in Poland is but a distant memory, and she finds part-time jobs to make ends meet. When a roommate asks her […]
Book review: “Daughters of the Winter Queen” by N. Goldstone
*This review originally appeared in the Historical Novels Review and can be found online here. Elizabeth, Louise, Henrietta, and Sophia were the four daughters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I of England, and granddaughter of the executed Mary, Queen of Scots. Members of a family of thirteen children, their childhoods were largely defined […]
Book review: “Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind” by B. Lipska
Director of the NIMH brain bank Barbara Lipska, PhD shares her harrowing journey through recurrent melanoma, this time in her brain and lungs. Already a breast cancer and melanoma survivor, Dr. Lipska is incredibly fit physically, has a loving, stable home live, and thrives in her new position as curator of human brain specimens that […]
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