Miss Titania “Tansy” Danforth is all alone in the world. Her beloved brother was a soldier who died in the war of 1812, and her parents died in a carriage accident. Now she’s had to leave the home she knew in New York to travel back to England, where she hasn’t lived since she was a little girl. Her father’s will states that she’ll not have her fortune released until she marries a man approved by her new guardian, her father’s cousin, the fearsome Duke […]
War Is Never Over
Primo Levi’s memoir The Reawakening begins where his Survival in Auschwitz ended. It’s the last days of the WWII, and Levi is trying to stay alive in what passes for a hospital or sick bay in concentration camp. Levi, who committed suicide in 1987, was an Italian Jewish writer and a chemist. He was arrested in as a part of the Italian resistance in 1943, and to escape being shot as a partisan, he confessed to being Jewish, and after a short interment in Italy, […]
Natural Born Killers was over a hundred years late.
Oh man, did i think I was going to enjoy this book. True crime and history, two of my loves, how could it have gone so wrong? Oh, by giving too much of the wrong sort of detail, I see. It’s far from the worst thing I’ve ever read, but it certainly wasn’t very engaging.
Chick lit + historical adventure romance with spies = a very entertaining read
Eloise Kelly is an American history student trying to find material for her dissertation in England. Enamoured with the dashing gentleman spies of the late 18th and early 19th Century, like the Scarlet Pimpernel and his successor the Purple Gentian, what Eloise really wants to do is unmask the identity of the most elusive spy of all, the Pink Carnation, who is rumoured to have stopped Napoleon’s invasion of England in 1803. When Eloise is allowed to browse through a cache of letters and diaries […]
Sweet and Funny
I’m not sure if it was my mood or the unusually long gap between romance novels, but I really, really liked How the Marquess Was Won (2011) by Julie Anne Long. After almost giving up on Long entirely because of some extreme typo issues, she’s become one of my favorite historical romance novelists. I already have a couple more of hers on my kindle, which I’m saving for my vacation. Now, there were some major typo issues in this book as well, but it wasn’t […]
In The Shadow Of The Reich by Niklas Frank
I have a coworker who is borderline obsessed with the Holocaust — she’s still in college and wants to make it her main focus of study. I was a history major as well — although I focused mainly on the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War — so we discuss her classes and what she’s learning (both in class and on her own) often at work. She knows I’m a big reader, so when she heard of Niklas Frank’s biography of his father, Hans […]
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