#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Avenues of Affection, my #bookreview for "Love Lane" by @PNovelistGale on my #bookblog now! A gentle sequel to "A Place Called Winter" about Harry Cane's reunion with his estranged family in England. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge #20BOS26

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Avenues of Affection.

Book Review for “Love Lane” by Patrick Gale. Summary: “When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arri…

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Chasing or Facing the Music? My #bookreview for "Lost in the Summer of '69" by Eliza Knight, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @SourcebooksLandmark for the @netgalley ARC of this rockin' novel #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge #WIAN26 #20BOS26

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Chasing or Facing the Music?

Book Review for “Lost in the Summer of ’69” by Eliza Knight. Summary: “Summer, 1969. Eleanor Bell, a widow, has always given everything she had to her family, forgoing her own dreams of…

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Where Angels Fear to Tread - my #bookreview for "When No One Else Will by Amanda Skenandore, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @Kensington for the @netgalley ARC of this important, heartbreaking #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/05/30/where-angles-fear-to-tread/

Where Angles Fear to Tread.

Book Review for “When No One Else Will” by Amanda Skenandore. Summary: “In the fall of 1939, while Europe grapples with the outbreak of war, Mimi Lukas wages a private battle in her Chicago n…

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A Prime or the Loneliest Number? My #bookreview for "Doubles" by @NoraGold, on my #bookblog now! My thanks to the author for sending me the ARC of this beautiful, thought provoking novella! #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge #OOCZ2026 #WIAN26

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A Prime or the Loneliest Number?

Book Review for “Doubles” by Nora Gold. Summary: “Doubles takes place in 1968 in an institution for troubled youth, and is told from the perspective of a brilliant, spunky, 12-year-old girl w…

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Not ALL Girls' Best Friend! My #bookreview for "The Hope Keeper" by Heather Webb, on my #bookblog now. Thanks #Sourcebooks Landmark for the #NetGalley ARC of this sparkly #biographical #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

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Not ALL Girls’ Best Friend!

Book Review for “The Hope Keeper” by Heather Webb. Summary: “1919, Washington D.C. Elisabeth Beaumont comes from a renowned jeweler family, but after the untimely death of her twin brother, s…

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#ShortStorySunday First Impressions, Secondary Consequences.

Book Review for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” by Muriel Spark. Summary: “She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. An…

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#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Gilded, Revolutionary Cages - my #bookreview for "Three Queens" by Rebecca Connolly, on my #bookblog here. Thanks to @ShadowMountn for the #Edelweiss ARC of this fascinating #biographicalfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/04/24/the-gilded-revolutionary-cages/

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…

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#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
#2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/04/16/packing-and-unpacking-with-books/

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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#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A Very Irish Story - my #bookreview for "Shibby Magee" by Carrie Kabak, on my #bookblog here. Thanks Corbyn Books and Carrie for offering me the ARC of this truly lovely book. #histficreadingchallenge
#2026NewReleaseChallenge #FridayFiction #FictionFriday

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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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#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Strongs and the Weaknesses. My #bookreview for #TheMoonshineWomen by Michelle Collins Anderson, on my #bookblog now. Thanks John Scognamiglio Books for the ARC of this #womensfiction #novel via @NetGalley #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/03/27/the-strongs-and-the-weaknesses/

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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