Today it’s my pleasure to take part in another Book Launch. I’d like to introduce you to Cathrina Constantine’s new novel Don’t Forget to Breathe. Blurb for Don’t Forget to Breathe by Cathrina Constantin: Sixteen-year-old Leocadia arrives home from school to find her mom’s bloody body. Unaware that the killer still lingers, she rushes toContinue reading “Book Launch! Don’t Forget to Breathe by Cathrina Constantine”
Category Archives: Books I Enjoyed
Book Review: Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston
Unequal Affections is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice. It’s also one of the most beautiful, engrossing, and haunting books I’ve read. It’s clever, original, and enthralling. You all know how much I love novels both set in and written in the 19th century, and you also know I’m especially fond of character-driven novels, well,Continue reading “Book Review: Unequal Affections by Lara S. Ormiston”
Book Review: The 20’s Girl, the ghost, and all that jazz, by June Kearns
I really loved this novel. It draws you in from page one with the setting, writing style, love story, and hint of humour. It was easy for me to love it, because it has all the elements I enjoy as a reader. Firstly, I’m especially attracted to historical novels, and it is set in theContinue reading “Book Review: The 20’s Girl, the ghost, and all that jazz, by June Kearns”
Book Review: How to Climb the Eiffel Tower by Elizabeth Hein
How to Climb the Eiffel Tower is the type of novel that makes you feel alternately sad and optimistic, as well as angry and hopeful. Overall it’s a celebration of life, of courage, and of second chances. At the beginning of the novel, Lara Blaine is an unlikeable loner. We soon learn thatContinue reading “Book Review: How to Climb the Eiffel Tower by Elizabeth Hein”
Book Review: The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
A Well-Researched, Character-Driven, Victorian Romance I loved this novel for two reasons: the main characters are original and believable and the plot is well-researched and engrossing. Minnie is adorable, and there is so much more to her than first meets the eye. She is very intelligent, cognitively as well as emotionally. She is beautiful, but scarred, physically andContinue reading “Book Review: The Duchess War by Courtney Milan”
Book Tour: To Fall in Love Again by David Burnett
It’s a real pleasure to take part in this Book Tour organised by Brook Cottage Books and introduce you to author David Burnett and his third novel To Fall in Love Again. My most treasured moments are the hours I’m able to spend in a comfortable chair with my Tablet and Kindle App engrossed inContinue reading “Book Tour: To Fall in Love Again by David Burnett”
Book Review: Captain Frederick Wentworth’s Persuasion by Regina Jeffers.
You Pierce My Soul, Captain Wentworth Persuasion, Jane Eyre, and Rebecca have been my favourite novels since I first read them as a teenager. I have reread them dozens of times since then, and although there are many others I reread regularly, too many to mention now, none are as dear to my heart andContinue reading “Book Review: Captain Frederick Wentworth’s Persuasion by Regina Jeffers.”
Book Review: On Christmas Hill by Faith Mortimer
Who doesn’t want to believe in the magic of Christmas? We all long to hear good news, encouraging stories of goodwill, unexpected reunions, miraculous changes of fortune, and happy endings, especially at Christmas time. I love the way seasonal literature and films enhance our experience of this ancestral need to believe that good can andContinue reading “Book Review: On Christmas Hill by Faith Mortimer”
The Ideal Fictional Hero: Just for fun!
Another excuse to introduce you to some of my favorite fictional characters, authors and novels. In no particular order… The most faithful and dashing fictional hero has to be Jane Austen’s Captain Wentworth, in Persuasion. He proposed to Anne Elliot, but he was rejected because her family thought he wasn’t good enough. Wentworth returned toContinue reading “The Ideal Fictional Hero: Just for fun!”
Book Review: Mad Dog Justice by Mark Rubinstein
I enjoyed Mad Dog House so much, I couldn’t wait to read the sequel, Mad Dog Justice, and read it in two days. Unfortunately I had other things to do, otherwise I would have finished it in just one day! Although I would strongly recommend reading both, preferably in the order they were written, itContinue reading “Book Review: Mad Dog Justice by Mark Rubinstein”
Rereading Jane Eyre 