Year: 2015

{F56} Emerald Green

Posted November 13, 2015 in Reading / 14 Comments

Emerald Green

Emerald Green is the third and final book in the Ruby Red trilogy by Kerstin Gier. This entire series was originally written in German and translated into English. I found this series while perusing the shelves of the library and I am so glad I did. It is such an interesting time travel series.

From Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier: (page 56)

He looked, if possible, even more remorseful.
“I promise you nothing like that will ever happen again.”

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{Review} A Mad, Wicked Folly – Historical Fiction on Suffragettes and Freedom in England

Posted November 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} A Mad, Wicked Folly – Historical Fiction on Suffragettes and Freedom in EnglandA Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller
Publisher: Viking Books (2014)
Hardcover (448 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl.
After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?

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{Review} Li Jun and the Iron Road – Chinese Workers on the Canadian Railroad

Posted November 9, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Li Jun and the Iron Road – Chinese Workers on the Canadian RailroadLi Jun and the Iron Road by Anne Tait
Publisher: Dundurn (2015)
eARC (216 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Adapted from the award-winning TV miniseries “Iron Road,” starring Sam Neill and Peter O’Toole, the story of a woman whose search for herself helped shaped two nations. Set in the 1880s in southern China and the mountains of British Columbia, “Li Jun and the Iron Road” tells the story of a feisty street urchin nicknamed Little Tiger, who works in a fireworks factory and yearns to sail across the ocean to the country she knows as Gold Mountain. Sent by her dying mother to find her father, who had left years earlier, Little Tiger disguises herself as a boy and finds herself working on the railroad in Canada. When her deception leads to a forbidden love with a privileged son of a Canadian railroad tycoon, the results leave two worlds shaken.

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{Review} These Broken Stars – Survival and Forbidden Love

Posted November 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} These Broken Stars – Survival and Forbidden LoveThese Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
Series: Starbound #1
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2013)
Hardcover (378 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Illuminae, This Shattered World, Their Fractured Light
Also in this series: This Shattered World, Their Fractured Light
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive — alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a cynical war hero. Both journey across the eerie deserted terrain for help. Everything changes when they uncover the truth.

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