Yellow Wife, A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
What would it be like if the man who owned you, married you, and then forced you to help him sell others? It really happened in the U.S., and Sadeqa Johnson dared to wonder how it felt in “Yellow Wife”.
19th-Century
Loved “The Children’s Blizzard”? Try these.
The Children’s Blizzard is not the best book ever written, but the topic is certainly interesting, and something you might want to know more about. Because children figured so heavily in this naturally disaster, children’s books are good options as read alongs when they are studying natural disasters, and there are several good books written …
Melanie Benjamin’s “The Children’s Blizzard”
What was it like to be one of the first settlers in blizzard country?
Best Book Club Meeting Ideas and Questions for “The Known World”
Background and the best discussion questions for Edward P. Jones’ The Known World. What is so great about this book and what do I need to know about it?
“The Other Bennet Sister”, A “Pride and Prejudice” Spin Off
Why Another Bennet Sister? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, no? Marguerite Gérard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Take an extremely popular book, especially one that a lot of people are required to read in school, put it in the public domain, and you will get a lot of spin-offs, prequels, and …
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Best Book Club Meeting Ideas and Discussion Questions for “The Other Bennet Sister” by Janice Hadlow
Everything you need to lead a successful discussion of The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow, a spin off of Pride and Prejudice focusing on the middle sister, Mary Bennet
Molly Greeley’s “The Heiress”: Can you Make a Good Book Out of a Boring “Pride and Prejudice” Character?
It’s always a mistake to dismiss anyone in a Jane Austen too quickly, even shy, asocial, almost unlikeable Anne de Bourgh, Elizabeth Bennet’s rival…sort of…in Pride and Prejudice.
5 FREE Easy Chapter Book Classics to Make Your Kids Laugh
This collection of FREE books is curated to appeal especially to children who are ready to begin reading their first chapter books. They are wonderfully inventive and engaging. All were selected as “1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up”. Best of all, they are all in the public domain, so it is free and legal to download them with no log in required.
Grace Livingston Hill: How Decency Triumphs in a Dark World (and can inject a little history too)
On Going Back In Time and the Invention of “Christian Romance” Here it is, the end of 2020. Finally. While it has been a tough year for so many of us although perhaps in different ways, most of us also know that we have also been blessed in certain ways. Goodness knows I have come …
“Little House on the Prairie” Part 3: Making Fiction From Fact
Did you ever wonder how much of the Little House books were real, and how Laura Ingalls Wilder managed to put her life story into such wonderful children’s books?
