iRead Book Tours Archives

In Thoughtful Retrospect: iRead Book Blog Tour

by evyjourney | posted in: A Writer's Life, Between Two Worlds | 0

It’s been a week or so since my book blog tour ended. And I have to say I kind of miss it. After all, during its six-week run, I felt like I was doing something useful to raise awareness of … Continued

Book Reviews: Escape Into Reality

War Heroes: The Nightingale and The Paris Architect

I’m not particularly enamored of war movies though my number one favorite these past few years is one (Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See). But an audiobook of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale was available to borrow on Libby and I was curious about a novel that merited a 4.8 rating from […]

The Lady’s Genius Is In The Details: John Mullan’s What Matters in Jane Austen

The first time I read Jane Austen, I was hooked. If you had asked me at that time why, I wouldn’t have known what to say. Since then, I’ve read all her published novels. Not just once but several times. I have my favorites. Pride and Prejudice, of course. Then Persuasion, which I think is […]