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hf - multi-period saga historical fiction 

2021: #79 – Fall of Giants (Ken Follett)

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 0 Comment
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

No one writes a historical saga quite like Ken Follett. Is it entirely historically accurate? Probably not. Is it fine literature? No. Did it keep me entertained for 30 hours? It did! For the most part. There was a fair amount of political stuff at the end that I found myself tuning out on, but I’m always interested in the stories of the people. I

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general fiction review 

2018: #12 – A Hundred Thousand Worlds (Bob Proehl)

November 22, 2018November 14, 2018 0 Comment

I wasn’t really sure how to categorize this book. On its face it looks like it’s going to be science fiction, but other than the settings primarily being science fiction conventions, it’s really not science fiction at all. What this is is the story of Val Torrey and her son Alex. Val used to be one of the leads on a very popular science fiction

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non-fiction review 

2017: #6 – Ghostland (Colin Dickey)

October 31, 2017October 27, 2017 0 Comment

This book was a birthday gift from my husband, who knows how much I love both old buildings and ghosts. I’m not sure I would have learned of it otherwise. We have toured many a historic home and taken ghost tours in many cities, because I love the combination of history with the mystical. So this book was right in my wheelhouse. Dickey is not

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Hi, I’m Jaime…

That’s I before M, 5 letters, no Ys. Obsessed with books. A lot.

   

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Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
contemporary romance review romance 

2021: #81 – Spoiler Alert (Olivia Dade)

November 1, 2022October 31, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

I really liked the heart of this book. I loved April and her unapologetic geekiness, and I liked what Dade has to say about body positivity, and that she wrote a male protagonist that walks the talk. What I wasn’t expecting was just how detailed into the fanfiction subculture this was going to go. It’s one of the few times I’ve started a book and

Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton
review romance romantic suspense 

2021: #80 – Cover Your Eyes (Mary Burton)

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
hf - multi-period saga historical fiction 

2021: #79 – Fall of Giants (Ken Follett)

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
fantasy high/epic fantasy review 

2021: #78 – The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)

July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

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