by SMThornton | May 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today we are celebrating authors who’ve made it, those with books on the shelves at your favorite bookstore. You all know I’m a history nerd so I decided to focus on the best historical fiction novel I’ve read in a long, long time. Mistress of Rome...
by SMThornton | Apr 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Dust Jacket Blurb:Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young...
by SMThornton | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the books you can win in my Motherload Contest (along with two others by thge marvelous Michelle Moran and an ancient Roman coin) is Pauline Gedge’s Child of the Morning. So I thought I’d review it!Here’s the dust jacket blurb:She ruled Egypt...
by SMThornton | Apr 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Don’t forget to enter my Motherload Contest! You can win three books AND an ancient Roman coin! The contest ends April 11th! I think we all know that literary fiction is getting a good and bad rap these days. It’s one of the...
by SMThornton | Apr 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Don’t forget to enter my Motherload Contest! You can win three books AND an ancient Roman coin! The contest ends April 11th! Last month I read Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, a story of a girl who steals books during World War II in Nazi...
