by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
A Gem Written with Honesty and Rawness By Woody Guthrie Infinitum Nihil / Harper, $25.99, 230 pages Woody Guthrie’s House of Earth was recently discovered as his only finished novel, written 65 years ago. Tike and Ella May live in the Texas Panhandle in...
by michaeld | Apr 9, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Wisdom to Soothe Anxiety By Paulo Coelho Alfred A. Knopf, $22.00, 190 pages “The most destructive of weapons is not the spear or the siege cannon, which can wound a body and demolish a wall. The most terrible of all weapons is the word, which can...
by michaeld | Mar 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
By Jane Hardin New Dawn Publishers, $10.99, 252 pages In this invented replay of Louisa May Alcott’s classic young adult novel, four teenaged sisters – literary Catherine, artistic Elizabeth, pretty Jane and pious Fanny – lead gentile lives in a...
by michaeld | Mar 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Almost Preachy By Kathryn Cushman Bethany House, $14.99, 332 pages “face was bright red, so that his freckles barely showed” “his face had gone so red…, his freckles had nearly vanished.” Susan is ambitious, driven, and perfect. Julie, her...
by michaeld | Mar 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Celtic Warrior Queen Captured in Fine Detail By Jan Surasky Sandalwood Press, $25.95, 220 pages Aptly titled from a line in Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night”, Rage Against the Dying Light tells the epic of fair-haired...