My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars This book is about the life of Hadley Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife. If you know anything about Ernest Hemingway, you know that he was a famously troubled and eccentric writer in the 1920s. So it’s obvious that his wife would have a great story to tell. But relationships are always more [...]
Archive for the ‘Historical Fiction’ Category
Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Posted in 4 Stars, Book Reviews, Historical Fiction on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Book Review: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Posted in 3.5 Stars, Book Reviews, Historical Fiction on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars This historical fiction is narrated by Dinah, daughter of Jacob . As in the Jacob, brother of Esau, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. She tells of her life as a young girl growing up in Mesopotamia amongst her father’s small tribe of wives and children. The red tent is, literally, the place [...]
Book Review: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Posted in 4.5 Stars, Book Reviews, Dramatic Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction on January 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars About the Book An epic novel that spans continents and generations, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, compassion and redemption, exile and home that unfolds across five decades in India, Ethiopia, and America. Narrated by Marion Stone, the story begins even before Marion and [...]
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Posted in 2.5 Stars, Book Reviews, Historical Fiction on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars This book was recommended to me by a friend who spent time vacationing in Utah last year. She likes to pick books relevant to her vacation destination to help enhance her travel experience which I think is a really cool idea. This was also one of my book club’s [...]
