Top Ten Books That Would be on My Syllabus if I Taught Historical Fiction 101

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught X 101 (examples: YA fantasy 101, feminist literature 101, magic in YA 101, classic YA lit 101, world-building 101). 1. Burial...

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Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

  Date finished: 22 August 2015 Ask the Passengers is one of the best novels I've read in 2015, and as you can see from my previous reviews, I've read some pretty good books this year. It's so good that I read it in one day, unable to put it down. The plot is pretty simple, but nice. I...

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Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Date finished: 12 August 2015 Where do I even start? This is a novel based on a true story about the last person to be executed in Iceland in 1830, Agnes Magnúsdóttir, sentenced to death for her part in the murders of two men. It’s dark and grim, definitely not what you’d want to read on a...

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Top Ten Authors I've Read The Most Books From

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Posting a day late because I haven’t had internet for the past twenty four hours. 1. Tamora Pierce (24) Mistress of fantasy, I started reading the Song of the Lioness quartet in 2010 and couldn't...

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