ACCENT: PIONEER GIRL by Bich Minh Nguyen

A quick description of this book sounds highly bizarre and unlikely to hang together.  A brother and sister are first generation Vietnamese Americans, struggling to find their own identities while respecting their mother and grandfather’s fierce loyalties to their heritage.  As a child, our narrator loved the Little House on the Prairie series of books.  She…

GIVEAWAY: THE MOTH AND THE SPARK

Hello readers! I have a copy of THE MOTH AND THE SPARK to giveaway.  Here is a description from the publisher: Set in the land of Caithen, a country on the brink of invasion by vicious Tyrekh, this breathtakingly imaginative fantasy packs every punch the genre requires—intrigue, war, sorcery and magic, dragons, and forbidden romance.…

REVIEW: TWO UNLIKELY DETECTIVES – Sidney Chambers and Harriet Westerman

                    The Perils of the Night James Runcie has put a sometimes-reluctant pastor, often-accidental detective Canon Sidney Chambers in 1950s Cambridge.  Chambers is a townie, one of the few outsiders tolerated by the establishment.  When a thrill-seeker falls to his death while scaling a cathedral tower,…

ARMCHAIR BEA: Giveaways

Hello Book Lovers!  Thanks to some awesome publicists, I’ve got some great giveaways for you, so let’s get going! Up first is SHADOW OF NIGHT by Deborah Harkness, along with a pack of exclusive buttons! A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont; together…