Category Archives: Historical Fiction

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang ( Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 51)

Posted on March 12, 2021 by bseat

First they lost the baby and then Ma, and then they lost Ba. Now it is just the two siblings, Lucy and Sam. Still children themselves, they leave the miners camp and try to find a place to bury their … Continue reading →

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The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 50)

Posted on March 5, 2021 by bseat

It is 1601, and Queen Elizabeth is dying. Childless, she has yet to designate an heir and King James VI of Scotland is the leading contender. However, there are suspicions that he is secretly a Catholic and might cause another … Continue reading →

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Snow by John Banville (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 46)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by bseat

You can’t get more appropriate than reading a book called “Snow” during a winter snow storm! Banville is a new author to me, but I know I will be reading more of his work.  It is a snowy winter day, … Continue reading →

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The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 43)

Posted on January 15, 2021 by bseat

Daniel Mason, is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. The Piano Tuner was published before The Winter Soldier which I really enjoyed and reviewed previously, and I found it just as engrossing and even more lyrical and mysterious. In … Continue reading →

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson ( Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 39)

Posted on December 18, 2020 by bseat

Troublesome Creek, Kentucky in the 1930’s is a hardscrabble place to live, filled with prejudice and superstition. Many of the men work in mines that are not safe and the women stay at home in the backwoods and hollers trying … Continue reading →

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The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker (Books To Read During a Pandemic, Part 35)

Posted on November 20, 2020 by bseat

On my father’s side I am supposedly a little bit Norwegian, which seemed very exotic to me as the rest of my gene pool is mostly German. I have had Norway on my bucket list since I was in fourth … Continue reading →

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Inheritors by Asako Serizawa (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 27)

Posted on September 25, 2020 by bseat

The Inheritors is a collection of interconnected stories about individual history and its legacy. It is about the choices we make and the impact of those choices have on following generations. It is also about the relationship between Japan and … Continue reading →

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The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 25)

Posted on September 11, 2020 by bseat

Lucius Krzelewski is a disappointment to his prominent and wealthy family. Although of Polish descent, the Krzelewski family moved to Vienna in the late 1800’s where social and business connections could be made and family fortunes enhanced. But Lucius, unable to … Continue reading →

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The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 19)

Posted on July 31, 2020 by bseat

Hilary Mantel is an impressive writer and she proves this again in The Mirror and the Light, the last book in her series on Thomas Cromwell. It was such a strange experience to move from a very negative and antagonistic … Continue reading →

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What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 17)

Posted on July 17, 2020 by bseat

As I have mentioned previously, I have been very reluctant to read any books by new authors during this pandemic, sticking instead to those who I know are reliable. But recently, either because of Amazon’s seductive emails offering discount prices … Continue reading →

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