Monthly Bookshelf Review - March 2019

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March's Books Completed and Reviewed

The White City: True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime by Grace Hitchcock - Winnifred Wylde goes undercover to investigate a man suspected of kidnapping. She and her bodyguard and partner, detective Jude Thorpe, are fictional characters, but the crime itself is based on a true story from the time of the Chicago World's Fair. (Read my full review HERE)

Winnifred paused at the corner of South Wallace Street and 63rd and drew a ragged breath as she smoothed down the front of her flawless navy skirt, trying to summon her nerve and ignore her misgivings. Jude's swollen face and bruises had awakened her from her fanciful musings of the romance of detective work.

Downsizing The Family Home: What to Save, What to Let Go by Marni Jameson - (Read my full review HERE.)

A key message of this book is that editing and paring a lifetime of memories is not something to put off until you approach or cross life's finish line. Rather, make sorting and selling and clearing out what you no longer need or use or love a way of living. It will make your life better now and lighten the burden on you and eventually on your loved ones.

 

During March I continued reading:

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery - I wish I'd finished this near the beginning of the month, because it's a very entertaining read. When she turns 29, Valancy Stirling decides she's had enough of following the dictates of her family, so she starts saying and doing exactly what she wants.

'I can imagine it,' said Valancy, with a shrug of her shoulders. She was suddenly free of fear again. 'I haven't listened to the gossip of Deerwood tea parties and sewing circles twenty years for nothing. But, Dr Stalling, it doesn't matter in the least to me what they say - not in the least.'

During March I started reading:

The Golden Bride (Daughters of the Mayflower) by Kimberley Woodhouse - After her parents pass away, Olivia goes to San Francisco to stay with her brother during the gold rush.

Olivia had known that her brother wouldn't be in such a place without a good reason. It made a lot more sense now. San Francisco was his mission filed. And it looked like at least one other good man lived here - even though he might stink to high heaven and be covered in dirt.

Transcripts Made Easy by Janice Campbell - a practical help for homeschool record-keeping during the high school years. I'll be reviewing this on my Homeschool Coffee Break blog in a couple weeks.

A Dangerous Collaboration (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn - The latest in the Veronica Speedwell series! Just barely started on this adventure in which Veronica and Stoker must find out what happened to a woman who disappeared three years earlier.

 Our investigative pursuits, invariably dangerous and thoroughly  enjoyable, had drawn us together, forcing a trust neither of us entirely welcomed. We were solitary creatures, Stoker and I, but we had discovered a mutual understanding beyond anything we had shared with others.

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - another book club pick that I will need to read in a hurry. Fortunately I've read this one several times before!

He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Coming Up in April!

Shadow among Sheaves by Naomi Stephens
Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer by Priscilla Shirer
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt by Stephanie Marie Thornton (ARC)
Secrets in the Mist (A Gothic Myths Novel) by Anna Lee Huber




   

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Feed Your Fiction Addiction - March 2019 Wrap-Up Round-Up & Giveaway
Book Date - It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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