photo by myakmysia I’m Sinéad O’Flanagan, I’m twenty-four and I’m a midwife. I came here to Chicago last year. It was Wednesday 15th July 1925. I will never forget that day, because as I enter the States, I could have as well been slapped onto the moon. Nothing here looks, smells or feels as it did in the…
The Mysterious Affair at Style is Hercule Poirot’s first inquest and Agatha Christie’s first ever book. Fantastic experience too: clever, complex, enjyable
It’s with great pleasure that today I’m hosting author Yecheilyah Ysrayl on my blog. Yecheilyah is the author the Stella Trilogy and many other books and she has just inaugurated a new series set in Harlem in the 1920s, the Nora White Story . On her blog, PBS – Pearls Before Swine she maintains many weekly and monthly…
Neil Gaiman originally wrote Odd and the Frost Giants for International Book Day. A poetic, dreaming retelling of Norse Myths, through a disabled boy’s eyes.
Unnatural Habit sees Miss Fisher going after a ring of white slave trader. One of Miss Fisher’s more complex investigations and best novels
What best way to celebrate Book Lovers Day than to read and share three ghost stories. The best read for this hot summer day
Can a book be deadly? That’s what Phryne Fisher has to discover, juggling between politics of Palestine, the Kabbalah and a new Jewish lover
RENAISSANCE (The Nora White Story Book 1) Yecheilyah Ysrayl – Nora White leaves her native Mississippi to join the excitment of the Harlem Renaissance in NYC. But soon she discovers excitment comes at a price
Two people meant to be together, separated by time and distance. This is not just a romance, but also the story of self-discovery, esteem and promises kept
Pinteret pin. The text reads, “Blood Ties – A very classic short film noir”. The picture shows the front hood of a 1950s yellow car with a chrome bumper.
Fatherland by Robert Harris is probably one of the most popular alternative historcial novels. It’s a good one… if with a few shortcomings
My thanks to my fellow blogger Andrea Lundgren for thinking about me as worthy of the Liebster Award. It’s always a great honour to receive an award from a fellow blogger. It’s a thrill that I always feel I should acknowledge by accepting the award. And let’s be honest, it’s nice to brag about ourselves…