Category: Historical

MARY JANE BY JESSICA ANYA BLAU

5/18/2022

Simply put, this is the perfect beach read. From the minute I started reading to the moment I finished I felt like the sun was shining on my shoulders.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 11, 2021
Genre: Historical Fiction (70s). Coming of Age.
Series: None.
Pages: 335 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.

The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and

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THE NIGHTINGALE BY KRISTIN HANNAH

4/29/2022

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I’ve never been a big fan of historical fiction but after reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah I am absolutely obsessed with the genre. This is a story everyone SHOULD read at some point in their lives.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Genre: Historical Fiction
Series: None.
Pages: 594 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: A Bookstagram Friend.

In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.

FRANCE, 1939

In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

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