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I was looking back through my twitter account posts over the past year or so,From time to time I also enjoy posting about 4 books I have become quite excited about. Here are the 4 historical fiction books that I intended to keep an eye out for this year. I have already found a couple and finished them. This Twitter post, I posted this  in late February, and i mean I am still excited to find these books. Anyways here it is. i. Code Name Sapphire By Pam Jenoff It's a book by Pam Jenoff, and that right there means it generally is going to be top drawer. I thoroughly enjoyed The Lost Girls of Paris which is the unrelated book published by Pam Jenoff.  I have actually managed to get my trash panda paws on a copy this book. This book was unfortunately only mediocre for me, I didn't love it, but at the same time I also did not hate it either. By no means was it anything like The Lost Girls of Paris.  The book stars off with Hannah's entire world comes crashing down when she w...

This book wasn't my typical historical fiction, World War II resistance fighters sort of story. This book was for sure considered a slow burning book. I spent so much time while reading this book, wondering when things are going to get a little more spicy. I was unfortunately a little disappointed with the results. With that being said though I still managed to get my way through the book (took a little longer than expected),but I also never experienced a moment while I was reading this book where I had to talk myself out of quitting reading this one and move on. So it was okay for me.      So after the many mixed emotions I have toward this book I gave it a standard 3/5 stars on my good reads account. Reflectively meaning it's not the worst book in the genre I have read, but I felt it wasn't anything to run to all my fellow readers and become the Opra of this book. (YOU GET A COPY. YOU GET A COPY. WE ALL GET COPIES!!!).         So the ...

  The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel This book was fantastic! The Room on Rue Amalie. .. I discovered this book while I was travelling through the United States for a couple of days . We were stopped in a Target and I pretty much hung around with the girlfriend long enough to realize they sold books there. Naturally I made a b-line for the section as soon as I realized. I got to the section and ended up finding 2-3 other books to add to my outrageously out of control reading list. Hopefully my ‘to be read’ shelf doesn’t become a place where books go to die. Anyways, I read the book summery and it hit almost all of the points that would make it to my reading list, and perhaps to the forefront of a 450 book to be read list.   This book is recommended for readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale , and Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly which were both books that I thoroughly enjoyed.   Both books tha...

My Real Name is Hanna By Tara Lynn Masih. This is a book of Hanna Slivka and her family’s many struggles during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. Hanna, fourteen at the time and as the occupation continues, Hanna wonders if she will be able to survive long enough to see her next birthdays. Her family is well respected in their small community, they are able to utilize news from other parts of the country to try and stay ahead of the Gestapo. The book begins with the Silvia’s hiding different people in their barn for usually overnight. Eventually the family feels it a time to go into hiding themselves they find themselves in a cabin in the woods for a short period of time. The eventually realize that the SS are drawing nearer in their searches for any of the remaining Jews within the area. The family finds their way into a dark (mostly uninhabited) cave. With the constant worry of food, and survival necessitates always running on low, the family is always...

I spent the first portion of 2018 reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. This is a classic that insites the underlying feminist movement in any individual.I found as I read further into the book, the more I got into it. I throughly enjoyed loved this book. I gave this book ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5. I felt a little lost in the beginning of the book, attemptinf to try to figure out what the rules are, and the reationalization for the way that society had become. This books is a CLASSIC, you Cannot go wrong with it, I would absolutely recommend this book to my friends. Once I finished the Handmaid's Tale, I moved one to the main genre so far of 2018. The main genre that I have most recently fallen in love with, and ot happens to be historical fiction (mainly focussing on WWII). For some reason the under dog story of any resistance toward the Nazi rule during 1935-1945 has been turning my crank for the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. This is when I decided that I would read ...

The Girl in the Blue Beret By Bobby Ann Mason. Marshall Stone, an ex-pilot forced into retirement from his commercial airline. Stone decides after he no longer has any obligation to the airline, that he is going to get in touch with the various individuals who helped him and his air crew escape German occupied France. Marshall was one of the pilots who flew a bomber for the allies during the Second World War. On a return mission Stone and his crew are shot out of the sky, and are forced to initiate and emergency landing. Once on the ground in France, the surviving crew attempt to escape the German forces. Along with the aid of the surrounding villagers the crew manage to evade capture, and return home. This book was a difficult read for me, it was the complexity of the reading, but it was the dryness and the story itself. On my Goodreads account I gave this book ⭐⭐/5. I think one of the fatal flaws of this book for me was Marshall Stone’s character. Stone is obsessed with every...