Books I am Excited About

I have been trying to use the library more this year and I just picked up several books that I am super excited to read!

Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning-I love the Fever series! This is the last book and after the major cliff hanger at the end of Dreamfever, I can't wait to dive into this one!

Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees-This isn't a newly published book but I just recently heard about it. It's supposed to include interviews from survivors as well as the Nazis working at the camp. I am really interested in the Holocaust and World War II and am curious to see what this book brings to the table.

A Woman Nobly Planned: Fact and Myth in the Legacy of Flora MacDonald by John J. Toffey: The Outlander series really turned me on to Scottish history as well as the history of the Scottish Highlanders in America. I found Flora MacDonald to be an intriguing figure in the series and am looking to learning more about her.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson-I am on a very long library waiting list for this book and I haven't decided if I want to break down and buy it or not. I think the premise of the book sounds fascinating and as I said above, I am really interested in that period in history. I also liked Larson's Devil in the White City so I think this could be a really good read.

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Review: "Oleanna" by Julie K. Rose

Synopsis: Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the author's great-great-aunts. Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working their farm deep in the western fjordland. A new century has begun, and the world outside is changing, but in the Sunnfjord their world is as small and secluded as the verdant banks of a high mountain lake. The arrival of Anders, a cotter living just across the farm's border, unsettles Oleanna 's peaceful but isolated existence. Sharing a common bond of loneliness and grief, Anders stirs within her the wildness and wanderlust she has worked so hard to tame. When she is confronted with another crippling loss, Oleanna must decide once and for all how to face her past, claim her future, and find her place in a wide new world. My Thoughts: I was very surprised by what an absolutely beautiful story Oleanna is. The ...

Review and Giveaway: "Distant Signs" by Anne Richter

Synopsis: Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany, Margret, a professor’s daughter from the city, meets and marries Hans, from a small village in Thuringia. The couple struggle to contend with their different backgrounds, and the emotional scars they bear from childhood in the aftermath of war. As East German history gradually unravels, with collision of the personal and political, their two families’ hidden truths are quietly revealed. An exquisitely written novel with strongly etched characters that stay with you long after the book is finished and an authentic portrayal of family life behind the iron curtain based on personal experience of the author who is East German and was 16 years old at the fall of the Berlin Wall. Why do families repeat destructive patterns of behaviour across generations? Should the personal take precedence over...

Mailbox Monday (49)

It's time for another Mailbox Monday post! Once again I could not resist the cheap ebooks that Amazon and Barnes and Noble were promoting this week. I really need to stop! I already have more than I can read. I also was able to spend a little time browsing at the library and I came home with a nice stack of books. These days, I hardly ever get to spend time at the library by myself for more than a minute or two so it was wonderful to have time to just wander and see what I could find. Purchased (for kindle): The Color of Secrets by Lindsay Ashford The One I Was by Eliza Graham House of Bathory by Linda Lafferty Purchased (for nook): One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore Becoming Queen Victoria by Kate Williams From the Library: The Messenger by Daniel Silva The Ripper's Wife by Brandy Purdy Hotel Moscow by Talia Carner Brazen by Katherine Longshore What books did you get...

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