When I first think about the word champagne it's usually revolving around a tasty beverage that is usually drank to celebrate something. A new year, a wedding, a promotion, Christmas morning mimosas, etc. I realized that I never really thought about the history of champagne or some of the deeper contents behind it. Champagne comes... Continue Reading →
Kristin Hannah has become one of those authors that whenever she writes a new book, it immediately goes on my want to read list. No matter the topic I will add it to my list and I think many others feel that way as well as she is constantly in the top ten of followers... Continue Reading →
If you know me or have been reading my book reviews for some time you probably have caught on that I am a very harsh critic when it comes to books. In all the books I have read this year I have only given four books a five star ranking on Goodreads. This being one... Continue Reading →
A little fun fact about me is that I love musicals. Going to a theatre and watching a musical production and then immediately downloading the soundtrack and playing it on blast on the car ride home. Performing my own Broadway musical that will luckily never hear the ears of anyone else around me. Ah good... Continue Reading →
I made the mistake of thinking I could have three different historical fiction books going all at the same time. The issue wasn't with the amount of books as I almost always have at least two books going at once, a hard copy and one on my phone and only recently have I started listening... Continue Reading →
Sisters in Arms follows the true story of the first and only all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps and what it was like for them during training as well as overseas during World War II. Grace Steele and Eliza Jones are the two main ladies in this book and they are as different as... Continue Reading →
For as much as I travel, I am an incredibly nervous flyer. Like I am usually fine when I get on the plane but I am a stress mess waiting in the security line all the way up until the plane finally boards. So I would like to formally apologize for anyone who has had... Continue Reading →
I have so many books on my want to read list that I often forget about them once they get added until the time comes for me to read that book. Obviously they must interest me somewhat to grab my attention the first time, but it's hard to keep track of all the different titles... Continue Reading →
We share far more in common than that which divides us. Gina Wilkinson When the Apricots Bloom follows the lives of three women set in Baghdad, Iraq 2002. Huda, an employee for the Australian embassy, has been recruited by the mukhabarat, secret police of the president Saddam Hussein, in hopes of finding out information from... Continue Reading →
If I had to describe this book in three different ways it would be the movie Project X, meets an extremely dysfunctional family, meets the 1980s. And it is fantastic. It's been getting a lot of awareness lately with people on Tik Tok sharing it, and though I do not have Tik Tok myself, I... Continue Reading →
The Library Abroad 