Tag Archives: Hillary Clinton

Week beginning 9 April

Marie Bostwick The Book Club for Troublesome Women HarperCollins Focus | Harper Muse, April 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Marie Bostwick’s book begins with her revelation about her inspiration for it – a conversation with her ninety-one-year-old mother in which Bostwick learnt that Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique had,Continue reading “Week beginning 9 April”

Week beginning March 27 2024

Jackie French The Sea Captain’s Wife Harlequin Australia. HQ (Fiction, Non-Fiction, YA) & Mira, March 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. The Sea Captain’s Wife is an engaging amalgam of Jackie French’s knowledge of the intriguing historical hunt for marriageable shipwrecked sailors; meticulous attention to depicting an authenticContinue reading “Week beginning March 27 2024”

Week beginning 20 September 2023

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the subject of this week’s review. Do All the Good You Can, How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics by Gary Scott Smith, University of Illinois Press, 2023 will be published in October. Gary Scott Smith provides a rather different perspective on Hillary Rodham Clinton, or so it seems to me.Continue reading “Week beginning 20 September 2023”

Week beginning 22 December 2021

Book reviews this week include non-fiction – Christian Lamb’s Beyond the Sea A Wren at War ; John Marsden, Take Risks; and Elie Mystal Allow Me to Retort A Black Guy’s Guide to The Constitution and fiction – Kathleen McGurl’s The Girl from Bletchley Park. All of these books are uncorrected proofs provided to meContinue reading “Week beginning 22 December 2021”

Week beginning 20 October 2021

Two fiction books are reviewed this week. Both are an excellent read, with my rating of four (The Perfect Family) and five stars (The Tulip Tree) on Goodreads. They were provided to me by NetGalley for honest reviews. Suzanne McCourt The Tulip Tree The Text Publishing Company 2021 I was drawn to this novel becauseContinue reading “Week beginning 20 October 2021”

Week beginning 10 March 2021

Women’s History Month Book Reviews: Liz Hodgkinson, The Women Who Transformed Journalism, First published by Revel Barker Publishing, 2008, this publication, Lume Books, 2018. Commentary: books relevant to Women’s History Month (see Book Reviews) Let fiction have a say: British Women Fight for the Vote in Stand We at Last and Things a Bright GirlContinue reading “Week beginning 10 March 2021”