Historical Fiction – A Bookish Type

The Once and Future Me, by Melissa Pace

Reality is more fragile than we might realize and, when one is out of step […]

I always wondered about Mary Bennet, the middle Bennet daughter, originally introduced to us in […]

Trigger warning for suicide. Nora Breen returns in Murder at the Spirit Lounge, by Jess […]

Trigger warning for rape, racism. At the outset of Catherine Kurtz’s troubling novel, Feast, Minha […]

There is no getting used to death, even in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. […]

The further I got into Ayelet Waldman’s incredible new novel, A Perfect Hand, the more […]

Trigger warning for rape, mutilation, and slavery. The little bit of magic held by Young-ja’s […]

Trigger warning for brief description of rape and mutilation. I always read historical fiction about […]

Trigger warning for references to suicidal ideation and depiction of suicide. We meet Evander Mills […]

Isabel brings a lot of secrets with her to her very humble new home in […]