The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left. We took a vacation to South Korea and our first stop was Jeju for a 4-day thru-hike. This is the perfect book to read on an airplane to Jeju. Mi-ja and […]
Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
CBR18 Bingo: Season – The Cazalets are coming into a new season of their lives with the war on, the youngest son Rupert away in France, and new members of the family being born while others are dying. World War Two is now on, and come crashing into the lives of the Cazalets, a clan of well-off English wood dealers. However, they still have their own domestic dramas to deal with closer at home. This is the second book in the Cazalet Chronicles- I read the […]
Caribee by Christopher Nicole
CBR18 Bingo: Versus – Lots of conflict in this book – between the English and the Caribs and the Spanish, but also (with a strong Oedipal flavor) the conflict between father and son. Finding himself out of favor with the king, Tom Warner and his young son embark for the New World, hoping to find their fortunes in rainy Guyana. But it turns out that they may lay instead in lush green St. Kitt’s – if they can manage to keep alive, of course. About […]
The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray
Thank you to NetGalley and Vintage for this ARC. This book is on sale now. Jonathan Darcy is getting tired of his parents nervously hovering around him and keeping him from doing anything more strenuous than sitting in front of a fire, reading. So when a letter arrives from his aunt Jane at Netherfield, who is feeling rather inundated with Bingley’s sisters and their spouses, and his mother is unable to go, he eagerly volunteers to go in her stead. He has not stopped thinking […]
The Perils of Lady Catherine De Bourgh by Claudia Gray
The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh 3.5 stars Since Mr Jonathan Darcy, son of the esteemed Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Miss Juliet Tilney, daughter of Henry Tilney, have now solved not one, but two murders among their extended acquaintance, word has gotten around, and as a result, Lady Catherine DeBourgh has summoned the young Mr Darcy to come to Rosings Park to help her identify the person who is trying to kill her. He insists that Miss Tinley be invited as well. Both young persons […]
Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers
July 18, 2021 Ginny Brandon, a senator’s daughter, is sent to nominally ride a wagon train to California, but is actually smuggling gold to Mexico to support the Emperor’s cause. She is relentlessly drawn to the wagon train guide, Steve Morgan. But unbeknownst to her, Steve is actually a spy intent on thwarting her father’s plans. What can I say about this book? It’s a wild ride, but one I never wanted to get off of. Ginny and Steve are a quintessential, swashbuckling romance hero […]
