Review: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I am a tad obsessed with the play Come From Away since it was at the Ford's Theater the same time we were there in 2016. I have been trying to find something that would tell of what really happened over these days in Sept 2001. This book was short but provided some details as to what a small town did to make thousands of scared travelers feel safe and cared for. It is kind of emotional because you sort of have all those feelings you had on September 11, 2o01 and then you feel the terror of "the plane people".

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Review: My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton: Wife, Widow, and Warrior in Alexander Hamilton’s Quest for a More Perfect Union

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton: Wife, Widow, and Warrior in Alexander Hamilton’s Quest for a More Perfect Union by Stephanie Dray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I did adore this book. One hundred percent focused on Eliza and not Eliza as a perfect being, on Eliza as a woman that loves and has been hurt and betrayed, experienced loss and hardships and joy. It was so much like being a fly on the wall and being there during the events of her life. If you only know Eliza from Hamilton: An American Musical, this will take you deeper into what she could have been like.

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Review: The Last of the Duchess: The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

The Last of the Duchess: The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Caroline Blackwood
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Royal Family has always interested me and I read just about any book that I can on any member. Wallis has been one of my favorites, not for what she did good but for how she was a determined lady, twice divorced and her goal was to marry David and be Queen. Maybe that is not what she was thinking, but I think it was. I do think that this is the best book that I have ever read about Wallis. One other interesting fact is that when I looked up the author I saw that she herself led an interesting life so now I have to go study her.

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Review: Margot

Margot by Jillian Cantor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love historical fiction books that take someone we may know and tell us a story about their life that might or might not be true. This premise was mesmerizing in the way that it took Anne Frank's sister and saved her. She was in the future with a life and secrets and trying to hide who she was in the past while trying to live in the present.

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Review: Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What a beautiful book~I felt like I was right there in Hawaii during the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. I loved Parker very much and was sitting on pins and needles waiting to hear about his company. Not only was I worried about those guys, but also Herman and Ella. I thought it was a good book and a great way to spend a weekend.

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Review: Dolley

Dolley by Rita Mae Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I wanted to love this. I tried to love this. I mean I liked it ok, but it was a little too much history and not enough historical fiction for me. Dolley was portrayed in a light that I liked, but there was so much war stuff.

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Review: The Wedding Date

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I normally don't read these types of books (romance), but was intrigued because of the cover and then the fact that these two didn't even know each other. I devoured it in a few hours. Normally during a romance, I feel that I have killed a billion brain cells, this was not like that...this was like a romantic comedy starring Kerrie Washington and Jim from the Office. Fun times.

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