The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
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For mostly adult, literary, fiction; focusing on historical, contemporary, biographical, and women. Posts about women written by Davida Chazan
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
2d ago
Book Review for “The Flower Sisters” by Michelle Collins Anderson. Summary: "At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet’s slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for—Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
1w ago
Book Review for “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams. Summary: "Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day, she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten word flutter to the floor unclaimed ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
2w ago
Book Review for “Bloodshed on the Boards” (Morwenna Mutton #2) by Judy Leigh. Summary: "There is excitement in the air as the travelling theatre arrives in Seal Bay. When The Spriggan Travelling Theatre Company arrives in Seal Bay to perform a Cornish version of King Arthur the locals flock to be entertained. But for Morwenna ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
2w ago
Book Review for “The Tumbling Girl” by Bridget Walsh. Summary: " 1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice. Together they navigate London, from its ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
2w ago
From Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski to The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis. This is a monthly link-up hosted by KateW at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
1M ago
Book Review for “How to Solve Your Own Murder” by Kristin Perrin. Summary: "It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
1M ago
Book Review for “The Bookseller's Wife” by Jane Davis. Summary: "London, 1775: The only surviving child of six, Dorcas Turton should have been heiress to a powerful family name. But after her mother’s untimely death, she is stunned by the discovery that her father’s compulsive gambling has brought them close to ruin. With the threat ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
1M ago
Book Review for “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” by Anne Tyler. Summary: "Pearl Tull may be dying, but she remembers well the day her husband abandoned her and left her to raise their three children--Cody, Ezra, and Jenny--by herself. Now, as these three are brought together by Pearl's nearing death, each sibling recounts the bitter ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
1M ago
Book Review for “At the Stroke of Midnight” by Jenni Keer. Summary: " It’s 1923 and in a decade that promises excitement and liberation, Pearl Glenham and her father are invited to a mysterious country house party on the Dorset coast, by a total stranger. Her father claims not to have any prior association with ..read more
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog » Women
1M ago
Book Review for “Hidden Yellow Stars” by Rebecca Connolly. Summary: "Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium, who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and decides to take action ..read more