
The Strongs and the Weaknesses.
Book Review for “The Moonshine Women” by Michelle Collins Anderson. Summary: “Every batch of Strong moonshine has its own special flavor, thanks to the secret ingredients that matriarch Lidy …
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Women Widening Worlds With Words.
Book Review for “The Temple of the Muses” by Jane Davis. Summary: “London, 1780. As the city smoulders in the aftermath of the Gordon Riots, booksellers James and Dorcas Lackington resolve to…
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Art of Rebellion and/or Conforming. My #bookreview for "The Dream Life of Sukhanov" by @OlgaGrushin, on my #bookblog now. This is a beautifully written story set in pre-fall of the #USSR, is very relevant to today! #histficreadingchallenge #BeatTheBacklist
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/02/21/the-art-of-rebellion-or-conforming/

The Art of Rebellion and/or Conforming.
Book Review for “The Dream Life of Sukhanov” by Olga Grushin. Summary: “At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious …
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Sirens on the High Seas. My #bookreview for "The Determined" by @Rachel_Rueckert, on my #bookblog now! Thanks @KensingtonBooks for the @NetGalley ARC of this fascinating women's biographical novel. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/02/11/sirens-on-the-high-seas/

Sirens on the High Seas.
Book Review for “The Determined” by Rachel Rueckert. Summary: “1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer …
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A New Recipe for Death.
Book Review for “To Kill a Cook” by M.W Akers. Summary: “Nobody in Manhattan eats better than Bernice Black. It’s 1972, and she is the city’s busiest restaurant critic, juggling her fiance an…
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For the Love of Syntax.
Book Review for “Confessions of a Grammar Queen” by Eliza Knight. Summary: “Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO i…
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Hollywood and it’s Resistances.
Book Review for “Typewriter Beach” by Meg Waite Clayton. Summary: ” 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard 7-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks lat…
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A 17th Century Modern Woman.
Book Review for “Anneke Jans in the New World” by Sandra Freels. Summary: “It’s 1630, and Anneke Jans has just arrived in the fledgling colony of New Netherland with her husband, Roelof, and …
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TCL’s 2025 Reading & Blogging Challenge Progress Post!
Happy December! With the year almost at an end, and since I don’t have a book review for today, I thought I’d let you all know how I’ve been doing with the reading and blogging ch…
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Australian Neapolitan Intrigue.
Book Review for “The Italian Secret” (Billie Walker #3) by Tara Moss. Summary: “Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air rai…
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