Almost accidentally, author Susan Hood stumbled upon a historical event that has gone mostly overlooked and it is the basis of her exciting middle grade novel Lifeboat 12. The book is told in verse format by narrator and actual survivor Ken Sparks, who is thirteen years of age right before London … [Read more]
My first cannonball review! I've been a long-time reader of Pajiba and last year was the first time I started tracking the books I read a bit more intentionally, albeit in a spreadsheet, so two of my interests are really coinciding here. Anyways, on to the book. First of all, N.K. Jemisin is just … [Read more]
Gone Girls, 1900 Edition
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a small book, only 224 pages, that packs an outsize punch. I can’t remember where I stumbled on it – if it was through blogging or goodreads, or just by following one of the bookish rabbit trails that I find myself chasing when I start looking at books. The book description … [Read more]
Sisters are doing it for themselves
This is book two in the Hudson Sisters Series - the first book "The Last Chance Matinee" introduced the trio of women who are bound by the terms of their father's will to restore an old theatre in the small town of Hidden Falls, PA where he grew up. Two of them, Allie and Des, were shocked to … [Read more]