March 25 is Tolkien Reading Day. Organized by the Tolkien Society, the day was chosen to coincide with the defeat of Sauron. The day was established “to encourage fans to celebrate and promote the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien […]
Author: Ed O’Loughlin Title: Minds of Winter Format/Source: ebook/Netgalley Published: 7 March 2017 Publisher: Quercus Length: 496 pages Genre: Historical fiction Why I Read: Browsing NetGalley, cover + topic caught my attention Rating: ★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | Wordery I received a copy from […]
Neverhome by Laird Hunt She calls herself Ash, but that’s not her real name. She is a farmer’s faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. NEVERHOME tells […]
Author: Farida Khalaf with Andrea C. Hoffman (trans. from German by Jamie Bulloch) Title: The Girl Who Beat ISIS (The Girl Who Escaped ISIS in the US) Format/Source: Paperback/Library Published: July 2016 Publisher: Square Peg Length: 204 pages Genre: Memoir Why I Read: Spotted in ‘new and […]
From October to December of last year, I read just over 50 middle-grade fiction books in my role as a round one judge for the Cybils. To share some of the Cybils nominees I’ve read, I’ve decided to create a […]