I have a guest post over at Historical Tapestry today in honor of Veterans Day (aka Remembrance Day). My post is about how my grandparents' lives influenced my love of WWII-era historical fiction. I do hope you'll hop over there and check it out ......

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson 783 pages Book 12 of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan Important Notes: The first part of this review is spoiler free. The spoiler section is at the very end and is clearly labeled.For...

As I hope you've already heard, RebeccaReads and I are co-hosting the Really Old Classics Challenge between now and Feb. 2010. One of the "extra credit" activities for this challenge is to read a modern retelling of a really old classic. I enjoy these...

Two books to share with you this week ... Surviving Paradise, by Peter Rudiak-Gould - publisher summary:"A cultural castaway writes winningly of life on a remote island in the Pacific that may be one of global warming’s first casualties. Just one...

I know, some of you are gasping in horror over the title of this post. Let me explain ... *** How I ended up reading it *** I'd been hearing great things about LAVINIA, by Ursula K. LeGuin, from a bunch of bloggers. It sounded like something I'd...