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Excessively Diverted
May 12, 2024
Book Review: Confinement
Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox is a fascinating look at topics typically...
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Mar 17, 2024
Book Review: A Grave Robbery
Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from...
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Feb 18, 2024
Book review: Sex, Lies, and Sensibility
Nikki Payne has a follow-up to Pride and Protest with a modern adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. I am SO glad I was asked to read an...
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Feb 4, 2024
Book Review: Never Blow a Kiss
In this first in a new series about a secret network of governesses who spy on the Victorian ton, a governess running away from her past...
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Nov 26, 2023
Book Review: Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain
Did the people in Georgian Britain live up to their stereotypes when it came to sexual behavior? Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain...
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Jul 23, 2023
Book Review: The Poetics of Passion
In 1872 London, Musa Bartham has been publishing steamy poetry under a pen name to support her family. But when Musa’s sister is offered...
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Jul 2, 2023
Book Review: Bookshop Cinderella
Bookshop Cinderella Scandal at the Savoy #1 by Laura Lee Guhrke available June 20, 2023 Evie Harlow runs a quaint bookshop in 1890s...
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Jun 4, 2023
Book Review: Murder in Postscript
Murder in Postscript (Lady of Letters #1) by Mary Winters. March 28, 2023 by Berkley When one of her readers asks for advice following a...
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May 28, 2023
Book Review: The Late Mrs. Willoughby
The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to...
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Apr 30, 2023
Book Review: Before Mrs. Beeton
I research the Georgian era and have even tackled a few 19th century recipes, so the name Hannah Glasse came up often. Imagine my...
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Mar 7, 2023
Book Spotlight: A Sinister Revenge
Happy publication day to A SINISTER REVENGE (Berkley Hardcover; March 7, 2023) by Deanna Raybourn. I loved this series and I’m eager to...
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Mar 5, 2023
Book Spotlight: The Neighbor Favor
THE NEIGHBOR FAVOR brings together Black representation, the girl-next-door trope, friends-to-lovers, and the book publishing world to...
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Jan 5, 2023
Book Review: The Call of the Wrens
Last month, I finished The Call of the Wrens and it turned out to be one of my favorite reads of the year. Out now from Harper Muse by...
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Nov 27, 2022
Book Review: Better Than Fiction
Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin November 8th 2022 by Berkley Books Book Review: Book hater Drew Young inherited her grandma’s...
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Nov 20, 2022
Book Review: Pride and Protest
Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne. Berkley. November 15, 2022 Need something to read? What about Pride and Prejudice with diverse...
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Nov 6, 2022
Book Review: Sister Novelists
Have you heard of Jane and Anna Maria Porter? Well, if you're a fan of nineteenth century fiction, you should. The Porters—contemporaries...
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Oct 30, 2022
Book Review: Unnatural Creatures
Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women by Kris Waldherr from Muse Publications October 4, 2022 Do you like to read spooky...
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Oct 16, 2022
Book Review: The Duke's Rules of Engagement
The Duke's Rules of Engagement by Jennifer Haymore. September 27, 2022 by Entangled In 1817, Joanna Porter is an outspoken and lively...
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Oct 9, 2022
Book Review: Murder at the Serpentine Bridge
Andrea Penrose Kensington Books September 27, 2022 I love this series. Wrexford and Sloan are auto-reads for me; I don’t even have to...
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Sep 11, 2022
Book Review: Killers of a Certain Age
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for “the Museum”, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. This all-female...
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