Author: Sharon Biggs Waller

Item: A Mad, Wicked Folly
Rating: 4
Author: Amanda Marie

{TTT} Anticipated for 2016

Posted December 29, 2015 in Reading / 4 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week’s list is the Top Ten Books I’m Anticipating for the 1st Half of 2016. Well, I’m going to list these ten by publication date. If they share the same publication date, then author’s last name comes into play. One of them isn’t technically the first half of 2016 but I don’t care. I still NEED it! These title all have such gorgeous covers that I could say that I picked them only for their covers… and it wouldn’t necessarily be a lie. With the covers and the synopses, I can’t wait to read these books!

Tagged as Top Ten Tuesday

November 2015 in Review

Posted November 30, 2015 in Reading / 8 Comments

Is November really over! It seems like this month has gone by so very fast for me. It is crazy!

Things that Happened in November

So much has happened it is hard to get it all in words. One of the students at my school suffered a stroke and is hospitalized for now. A counselor at the district high school died from an unexpected heart attack. My grandmother has been hospitalized yet again. It really hasn’t been a great month.
My religious education class (4th grade) was enrolled in the Association of the Miraculous Medal. They are all so excited to have miraculous medals.

Books I Read in November

Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Finishing the Series Challenge, Jesus, Mary, Monthly Wrap-Up, Mythology Reading Challenge, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Education, School, Sister, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

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

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

A 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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Tagged as 4 star, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge

October 2015 in Review

Posted October 30, 2015 in Life, Reading / 8 Comments

Things that Happened in October

This month has been utterly insane at the school. With short week and then assemblies and homecoming week and red ribbon week and everything that goes with all that. I definitely need a break and, hopefully, things will calm down in November.
Life has just been crazy. Enough said.
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