Tag: 1950's historical fiction
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What to Read After Where The Crawdads Sing
Go as a River by Shelley Read This is a story of survival and love, with a strong sense of place in the Colorado Mountains (1940’s – 1970’s). You can tell the author has lived there for years and cherishes it. It is a story of adoption, necessary but cruel, and the long-reaching effects on… Read more
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What to Read After the Eclipse
The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel is about the wives of the Mercury Seven astronauts finding their voice as they transformed from military wives to celebrities during the great American space race! I loved how they supported each other through this exciting and dangerous time. Here’s the setup: “As America’s Mercury Seven astronauts were… Read more
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The Wish Book Christmas by Lynn Austin
I absolutely adored The Wish Book Christmas! It was the perfect start to my holiday reading. It is a follow up to If I Were You (see my review here). If you haven’t read If I Were You, stop now and read it first! The Wish Book Christmas features cheerful giving by the “Smart kings”… Read more
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The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
In The Golden Doves, a refreshingly post-WWII historical fiction novel, Martha Hall Kelly shines her light on how efficient the Nazi “ratline” out of Europe through Italy and on to South America was. One of the main characters is a Nazi hunter (although for different reasons than you might expect). The other is a mother… Read more