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Announcement: Winner: Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton
And the winner of the giveaway for Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton is….. Denise D (liked on Facebook) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher and HFVBT for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway: Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton
In ancient Egypt, Hatshepsut will become on it’s most notorious rulers. Egypt will prosper under her reign, but at what cost to her personal life? Her whole life she dreamed of being free and able to make her own choices but a tragic accident changes her life forever. Thanks to the HFVBT and the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. Giveaway runs 5/15/14 to 5/22/14 Winners will be announced 5/23/14. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can…
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Review: Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Thornton
Author Stephanie Thornton has an affinity for lost women in ancient history. I had the pleasure or reading her first book about Empress Theodora last year and absolutely loved it. I was thrilled when I heard about her latest novel, Daughter of the Gods, about one of Egypt’s most notorious female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. This time we venture into ancient Egypt where the country has known peace for quite some time. Thutmose reigns and with one surviving son, Thut and two daughters Neferubity and Hatshepsut. Neferubity is to marry Thut to ensure the pure blood lines, while Hatshepsut is free to be as wild as her patron goddess, Sekhmet, is. The goddess of war is…
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Review: The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret by Catherine Bailey
Non-fiction books are often a double edged sword for me. I love that I get the historical information and facts about a period in history or a specific person etc, however often the material is presented in a very scholarly manor and can at times be on the dry side. However ever once in a while I get a non-fiction book for review that really catches my eye and that was the case with The Secret Rooms but Catherine Bailey. This book promised a Downton Abbey-esque, real life mystery in the upper echelons of WWI English society…how could I pass it up? This story roped me in almost immediately.
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Announcement: Winner The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
And the winner of The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson is….. Carl S (subscribes to blog) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Viking/Penguin for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway: The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
Get ready to dive into the life of the Beat Generation icon, Jack Kerouac! Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac for your enjoyment! Giveaway runs 9/13/13 to 9/20/13 Winners will be announced 9/21/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will be void. Winners will be notified by email the day after the giveaway closes and have five days to…
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Review: The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
The life of novelist and poet Jack Kerouac has been widely documented through a series of biographies over the years since his death in 1969. So why read yet another biography about we well known author? What makes this one different than all the rest? The author of the biography, Joyce Johnson, had a romantic affair with Kerouac and focuses primarily on the events leading up to his most well known novel, On the Road. She offers an in-depth, unique knowledge and perspective of Kerouac as a writer. A lot of reviews out there have suggested that Johnson brings nothing new to the table in regards to Kerouac but for me,…
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Review: Marilyn’s Red Diary by E.Z. Friedel
Everyone knows that Marilyn Monroe is American’s sex icon. The blonde bombshells life is well known to many: the drugs, the sex, the insecurities, the tragic death, the conspiracy, the scandals. So what makes this novel different the every other Marilyn story out there you ask? It’s her diary. I won’t spend too much time with the background of this novel since Marilyn Monroe is such a well known figure. We meet the troubled woman while she is undergoing treatment from her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson.
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Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)
Be still my heart….finally someone who understands, finds humor in, and can articulate life’s little f-ed up moments that happen to us all…..well to some of us more than others! The Bloggess is known for her sardonic quick wit and dark situational humor. She compiled a list of “Things Most People Have Never Experiences of Could Have Ever Possibly Imagined, But That Totally Happened to Me” and woven these special little stories together creating a brilliant and hilarious novel. This is a difficult novel to review, mostly because it is the kind of book you just have to read to understand how truly awesome this book is. It is truly…
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Review: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
For each of us the name Cleopatra conjures up many vivid images… sensuality, seduction, beauty, the exotic, wealth, excess, Elizabeth Taylor. While the legend of Cleopatra is prevalent, what has been buried over time is this incredible woman’s real tale. What we know of her today comes to us through the writings of pissy old dead guys. In her book Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff attempts to sift through these accounts, many of which are brimming with Roman propaganda, to reveal a woman even more impressive than her modern day persona. I like to think of her as the O.B., the Original Bitch. Cleopatra became Queen of Egypt at the…