Books, Books, Books
I signed up for the challenge hosted by Amy @ Passages to the Past at the beginning of the 2020. I was aiming to improve on the 48 books that I'd read/listened to in 2019, so I picked the Prehistoric level of 50+ books. I completely forgot to post an update during the year, so... Continue Reading →
Here's a challenge I meant to join in with at the beginning of the month. It's still hosted by Amy @ Passages to the Past and it's very easy to take part in. Here's how it works: "Each month, a new post dedicated to the HF Challenge will be created. To participate, you only... Continue Reading →
I signed up for the challenge hosted by Amy @ Passages to the Past at the end of December 2018. I was aiming to improve on the 45 books that I'd read/listened to in 2018, so I picked the Prehistoric level of 50+ books. I completely forgot to post an update during the year, so... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year's crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . . ONE ROTTEN APPLE Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny's beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business.... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "Maud Gage Baum, widow of the author of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, met Judy Garland, the young actress playing the role of Dorothy on the set of The Wizard of Oz in 1939. At the time, Maud was seventy-eight and Judy was sixteen. In spite of their age difference, Maud... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "Connie Granger has escaped the devastation of her bombed out city home. She has found work in the Women's Timber Corps, and for her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose. Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. But in the forest camp, he finds a strange... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbour, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiance Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman's quarters,... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "Sunday July 18th My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "Amory Ames might be wealthy but she is unhappily married to playboy Milo, so willingly accepts her former fiance Gil Trent's plea for help in preventing his sister Emmeline from meeting a similar fate. Amory and Gil set off for the Brightwell, a sprawling seaside hotel in Devon, where Emmeline and her intended,... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "When Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’ is too good to refuse. Inside the Thorels’ tall house... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "When the crime scene is pure coincidence and there’s no evidence, how do you prove it was murder? Ella Bridges faces her most challenging investigation so far when the vicar dies suddenly at the May Day Fete. But with evidence scarce and her personal life unravelling in ways she could never have imagined,... Continue Reading →
From Goodreads: "Introducing Poppy Denby, a young journalist in London during the Roaring Twenties, investigating crime in the highest social circles! In 1920, twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a... Continue Reading →
Goodreads blurb: "When ageing brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative red-headed girl who is mistakenly brought to them instead. Nor are they prepared for the way in... Continue Reading →
As I enjoy reading and listening to historical fiction I'm signing up for this challenge again hosted by Amy @ Passages to the Past Here's how it works: "Each month, a new post dedicated to the HF Challenge will be created. To participate, you only have to follow the rules: Everyone can participate! If you... Continue Reading →
