By Johanna Lindsey
Read: Feb 2010
Rating: Convoluted
There’s a LOT of fun to poke at this thing. Before I have fun, let me say that it wasn’t awful. It wasn’t really good, either.
BOOK-IN-A-MINUTE, Git-style
(Yes, that means spoiler)
Roseleen: I am a history professor with a penchant for old weapons. Look at this fabulous old sword my brother [...]

By Joanne Harris
Read: December 2009
Rating: Delicious
I saw the movie ages ago, but I don’t remember it very well. A good deal of the book felt familiar, which means the movie did bear some similarity to it. Not that anyone would really care when they could gaze on a GORGEOUS Johnny Depp.
The book is lovely. Intriguing, [...]

By Diane Johnson
Read: November 2008
Rating: Mmph.
Right, so. I saw the movie ages back and don’t remember much about it except that I liked it more than my mother did, and she thought it was very disappointing.
The book is… strange. I wish we’d read it in one of my writing classes because it pulls all kinds [...]

By Tracy Chevalier
Read: October 2008
Rating: Mwah!
I really like Tracy Chevalier. Like so many people, I began with Girl With a Pearl Earring, and loved it. I think I love this even more, though.
Based off the tapestries by the same name, the book follows the people engaged in its making in the 14/1500s. We begin with [...]

By Donna Jo Napoli
Read: August 2006
Rating: Charming
I love retellings of fairy tales. My mother built me a collection of really gorgeously illustrated books when I was very young, and my edition of Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorites. Of course I had to read this rendition by Donna Jo Napoli, which begins [...]

By Rosalind Laker
Rating: Bon.
Read: 2005 (March?)

I’m still not sure if I enjoyed this, but it’s certainly worth talking about. To Dance With Kings is set in France, and begins with the founding of Versailles. Jeanne Dremont, a modest peasant woman living in the village of Versailles, struggles to give birth. Her husband labours for the [...]