In the late 19th century, Americans may have been making their way westward with women sharing immense burdens in this new pioneer lifestyle, but the share of power in marriages was still squarely in favor of men. In Kathleen Shoop’s novel The Last Letter, the injustice of this imbalance is felt on every page. Jeanie…
Category Archives: Historical
Triangle: Books on Screen
The Triangle Waist Company factory fire, which happened 100 years ago on March 25, 1911, in New York city, was seminal and devastating. At least 146 people were killed in the first few minutes, many of them jumping to their deaths to escape the all-engulfing flames. Because the door was kept locked to prevent the…
Angel Sister
Families can be the source of great love, support and blessing. Unfortunately, family situations can also cause some of life’s greatest sorrows. In her new novel, Angel Sister, Ann Gabhart tells the touching story of an American family living in small-town Kentucky during the Great Depression. Although better off than many, the family of young…
The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife is one of those novels that grabbed hold of me right from the start and never let go. The story starts in the midwest in the early 1920′s, where a young Ernest Hemingway meets and falls for Hadley Richardson, a woman 7 years his senior. I’ve always loved the 20′s — such…
Foreign Bodies
Foreign Bodies opens with a letter from a brother to a sister, in which he instructs her to go to Paris to try to find his son and give him a check, which he will presumably use to return home. From this letter we immediately see what kind of person he is – not a…
City of Tranquil Light
I am a big fan of historical fiction. I have always enjoyed the study of history, and I have always liked travelling back in time through the pages of a book. This year, I have read more nonfiction than fiction, which is very unusual for me, and I was looking for a good historical novel….
Nightingale
Over the past several years, I have enjoyed many of Susan May Warren’s books. If you are a fan of Christian fiction, I recommend that you give them a try (I especially enjoyed her very funny Josey series). In her newest book, Nightingale, Susan May Warren gives us the second novel in her Brothers in…
A Memory Between Us
Several months ago, I reviewed A Distant Melody, the first book in Sarah Sundin’s Wings of Glory series. I enjoyed this book, so I was glad to accept a review copy of A Memory Between Us, the second book in the series. Like the first book, this story is set during World War II, and…
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