
The Gilded, Revolutionary Cages.
Book Review for “Three Queens” by Rebecca Connolly. Summary: “Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie-Antoinette—three women form an unlikely sisterhood, navigating revolutions, royal press…
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Packing and Unpacking with Books. My #bookreview for "The Mountains We Call Home" by Kim Michele Richardson, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @sourcebooks for the @netgalley ARC of this 3rd Troublesome Creek book. #histficreadingchallenge
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Packing and Unpacking with Books.
Book Review for “The Mountains We Call Home: The Book Woman’s Legacy” by Kim Michele Richardson. Summary: “When Cussy Lovett, a Packhorse Librarian famed for bringing books to the peopl…
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A Very Irish Story.
Book Review for “Shibby Magee” by Carrie Kabak. Summary: “When their bold and brassy mother, Vera Coffey, disappears after declaring she was born into Ireland’s Traveller community, a traditi…
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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 …
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Women Widening Worlds With Words. My #bookreview for "The Temple of the Muses" by @JaneDavisAuthor, on my #bookblog now. This sequel to "The Bookseller's Wife" is the 2nd Chiswell Street book. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge #2026BookishBooks
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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
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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…
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 📚💙 #bookstodon Hollywood and it's Resistances. My #bookreview for "Typewriter Beach" by @MegWaiteClayton on my #bookblog now! OMG! A character with MY last name (no relation, though)! And what a story, too. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge #BeatTheBacklist
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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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