The Perfumist of Paris #BookReview #BlogTour #Excerpt @alkajoshi @htp_books

Welcome to my stop on the HTP Books, Winter 2023 Historical Fiction Blog Tour for The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi. This is the third book in the Jaipur Trilogy and I was looking forward to reading Radha’s story. Scroll down for my review and an excerpt from the book.

Historical Fiction Reviews: The Blackout Book Club, The Vanishing of Margaret Small #BookReview #Audiobook @emblabooks @neilalexander_ @bethany_house @recordedbooks

I do enjoy historical fiction, especially when it deals with times and situations that I don’t know a lot about. Both of these books were perfect for educating me about something that had happened in the past and I didn’t know a lot about. I found The Vanishing of Margaret Small to be very emotional for me and want to thank Sandy over at Sandy’s Book A Day for this recommendation. You can read her review here.

Book Reviews for Black History Month: : No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot by Wes Hall and The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray #BookReview #Audiobook

February is Black History Month and I had planned on reading several books by Authors of Colour as well as books about Black history. Unfortunately, best laid plans and all that, I only read two of my list of 6 possible. One Non-Fiction: No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot, and one Historical Fiction: The Personal Librarian. Both were excellent and I recommend them both.

12 Friends, 12 Books Challenge: The Butterfly Room, The Rose Garden Mini-Reviews #BookReview #Audiobook #12Friends12Books

So I am on schedule with this challenge reading/listening to the first two of twelve books for this challenge. The Butterfly Room was recommended by Sandy at Sandy’s Book a Day Blog and The Rose Garden was recommended by Bev at BEVERLEY A BAIRD. I enjoyed both of these books and look forward to the next one, One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid suggested by Susan @ Susan Loves Books) for March.

Historical Fiction Mini-Reviews: The Lindbergh Nanny, The Widows of Champagne #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2023

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks, Penelope Rawlins (Narrator)

Published November 15th 2022 by Dreamscape Media, LLC, Minotaur Books

3.5 Stars:

Saturday Morning for Kids: The Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna & The Other Side of the River #BookReview #Audiobook

This meme was started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers. As I am a grandmother, who loves to read to her grandchildren, a mother who loved to read to and with her children, and a retired teacher librarian, this meme really attracted me.

Happy Holidays! Christmas Book Reviews: Christmas is for Children, Alfie the Christmas Cat, Just in Time for Christmas, It Happened One Christmas Eve #BookReview #Audiobook #20BooksForChristmas #2022AudiobookChallenge #BeatTheBacklist2022

Well, I did it. With still 14 days until the end of the month, I completed my 20 Books for Christmas 2022. Alfie the Christmas Cat was my 9th backlist book and 20th book on the original list. Of course, I didn’t stop at 20 and there are three more books reviewed her that are set at Christmas, making my total of Christmas stories since the beginning of October, 38. Will I make it to 40??

Historical Fiction Reviews: Looking For Jane & When We Had Wings #BookReview #Audiobook

Looking For Jane by Heather Marshall

Published March 1st 2022 by Simon & Schuster Canada

5 Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Christmas/Winter Book Mini-Reviews: Christmas in Vermont, Mistle Text, The Christmas Lights, Orphan in the Snow #BookReview #20BooksForChristmas #HoHoHoRat #BeatTheBacklist2022

I am continuing to enjoy Christmas stories as I prepare for the Christmas Season. I am participating in 20 Books for Christmas, as well as the Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon, so was able to read or listen to several this week. A couple of these were not really Christmas, but more winter themed, but they were already on my list. Some are also backlist books, so I am actually ticking off 3 lists with one book. In the #20BooksForWinter these are #16, #17, and #18. One was not on that list.