This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010) Jacob de Zoet is a trader with the Dutch East India Company who has come to the trading post Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, in the eighteenth century. … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Tag: Historical fiction
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011) Set in a wandering circus in a fantasy of the Victorian era, two master magicians pit their young protégés against each other in deadly competition. This was a simply lovely book, so carefully … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans -- Ten-year-old Noel Bostock is an odd boy, smart, a reader, independent. He lives with his godmother until she goes senile and then dies. Left bereft, Noel is evacuated with other London children at the start of the Blitz, when Vee takes him in on impulse. Vee lives hand-to-mouth, always with some … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Crooked Heart
Recommended this week: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. Set against the backdrop of the mad rush to California in search of gold, Allende reveals history through the eyes of the people who lived it but don't usually get to tell the story: women and non-whites. She creates a diverse and three-dimensional world that feels both … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Daughter of Fortune
