Review:Not necessarily an easy read, but a worthwhile one - the market is full of WWII books, but not nearly so many WWI books - and not so many that are written quite as well as this one. WHile some of the plot twists and turns are seen so far away as to be visible from 30,000 feet - gee, I wonder if [thing the Lord refuses to do] will direct and tragically affect [lower-class person]? - that doesn't make them any less realistic or interesting. I didn't give the book five stars only because so much of... Read more

Review:A great, well researched historical fiction of the late 1600's in Puritanical Americas and the plight of the Native Americans. You become caught between the two worlds as Mary Rowlandson actually experienced. Read more

Review:This book tells a quaint tale of life's challenges in Iraq. If you enjoy a very easy read and a nice story with a pleasant ending this is for you.
I enjoyed it's simplicity enough to give it four stars. Read more

Review:I have enjoyed this series so very much. There has to be another part of the story to come. Great relationships developed between the main character and her slave family. I hope I had an ancestor with this much grit. Read more

Review:This was a nice romance, just not very complex. It was fairly contrived that Tyler would pine away for 17 years, just hoping that his high school crush, Alexis, would show up one day. When she does show up, a recent widow, it was fairly obvious how it was all going to end happily. Still, I enjoyed the book, even though I prefer a little more depth to a story. Read more

Review:It was really hard to like the main character, I'm from the Pacific Northwest so obviously live in a different world. I just couldn't understand allowing yourself to be controlled like that and all the back and forth was just getting ridiculous. Read more

Review:This has been a wonderful book,in more ways than one for me.
I have read several more of Ms.Stallings books and have quiet a few more to read as time permits.
I don't think I have read a one that doesn't have values of a Christian nature we could and learn from.They are written in a way that gives you something to think about and do some real soul-searching while reading them and even after you stop reading for awhile.
That said.
The reason I just gave it a four star is this: The boo... Read more

Review:This book made me laugh and cry. This book is for everyone especially if you have a friend that you would go to great lengths for! Olive's antics are driven by her nervousness. This only amps up the entertainment encompassed within this book! Read more

Review:I have always enjoyed Philippa Gregory's writing. After reading The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool, I wondered how I could go wrong with her other efforts. I went very wrong.
The premise of Wideacre is innocent enough. A young girl, Beatrice Lacey, is in love with her family land and wishes to inherit it. INstead, she is stuck in a time when men were the rulers and women barely got to go to the bathroom by themselves. Her brother, a whiny boy, isn't in love with the land and lack... Read more

Review:Gregory ends the novel with a little bit of information about Margaret, taking time to note specifically that little has been documented in terms of her life aside from broad strokes. I knew this already going in, but Gregory's writing betrays this fact as well. There are a couple of unfortunate issues here, and I was surprised as Gregory has previously proven to be perfectly adept at spinning an entertaining story out of very little (or potentially biased) source information.

First, as o... Read more