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I squeezed in quite a few books in August, thanks in part to several days off in Cape Cod at a lovely house my sister rented (I accidentally...

Few books could be as intense or memorable as Wein’s award-winning Code Name Verity (2012), set in Gestapo headquarters in Nazi-occupied Fr...

I am usually wary of books everyone promises I will love but when my friend Susan told me to read This Book Made Me Think of You , I immedia...

If one has to be an orphan, it is helpful to be an heiress, however modest, and be reasonably attractive. Laura Fane has “white skin, dark ...

It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best . We all start at the same place as other readers, add six book...

I became a huge fan of Louise Penny, not after reading book 1, Still Life , in her Three Pines series but while listening to book 2, A Fatal...

“Dual timeline” novels are quite popular these days, but The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton adds another twist. Jennifer Brown alternates a ...

It’s been six years since I visited Lane Winslow and her neighbors in King’s Cove, British Columbia, where she settled after WWII, hoping to...