by Site Owner | May 17, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
A Work to Be Admired By Joyce Carol Oates ECCO, $27.99, 667 pages Joyce Carol Oates is one of the America’s most respected writers. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that her most recent work, The Accursed, is brilliantly crafted. That said, this...
by Site Owner | May 10, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Immerse Yourself in 18th-century Beijing By Pauline A. Chen Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 400 pages Set in 18th-century Beijing, The Red Chamber is a masterful tale of the Jia mansion and its inhabitants. The reader is immediately immersed in the...
by Site Owner | May 8, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Lighthouse Keepers in Early Florida By Joanna Brady St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99, 335 pages In the early 1800s in Florida, lighthouses were normally manned by men, sometimes a man and his wife, or occasionally by a family, but the man was always in...
