Book Reviews

Here is a list of all the books I’ve reviewed on this site, the most recent at the top.  I hope you will find some interesting new books to read!

(You can also find my Amazon reviews here , and my Goodreads reviews here .)

• Mathematics and Science–how Poetic! January 31, 2023
• Author Edward Payson Roe November 30, 2022
• Review of Barriers Burned Away; remembering the1871 Chicago Fire October 8, 2022
• Gesta Romanorum: A unique glimpse into history August 31, 2022
• Love in a Little Town by J.E. Buckrow February 22, 2022
• When Choosing Fiction, Don’t Settle for Less September 30, 2021
• Review of To See the Moon Again February 28, 2021
• Ready for a break from all the negativity? Check out these books January 30, 2021
• Review of The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin December 30, 2020
• Hedgerow Tales, Mrs. Gatty’s Parables of Nature September 30, 2020
• Fun and Frolic: Stories for the Young from the 1800s October 28, 2019
• A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson August 31, 2019
• Review of All In by Lisa Simonds June 16, 2019
• Review of Back to Arcady by Frank Waller Allen May 31, 2019
• Titus: A Comrade of the Cross – a classic novel for Easter April 21, 2019
• Valentine’s Day Romance – The Naturalist by Christina Dudley February 14, 2019
• The New Year by Pearl S. Buck January 12, 2019
• Lonely Lily: a vintage children’s book by Mary L. Code September 30, 2018
• Faulkner’s Favorite – Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes July 19, 2018
• What Did Lucy Read? May 31, 2018
• Review of Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson February 28, 2018
• Thunder and Lightning and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer December 31, 2017
• Book review of The Sojourner by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings September 29, 2017
• Goodnight Poems of Eugene Field July 22, 2017
• Review of God’s Good Man: A Simple Love Story, by Marie Corelli February 28, 2017
• Sam’s Mission: A Story of Jubilee Year, by Beatrice Marshall October 24, 2016
• Little Grain’s Big Adventure by Jacqueline Price October 14, 2016
• The Real Diary of a Real Boy by Henry A. Shute September 24, 2016
• Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 August 30, 2016
• Eve and her Pet Brontosaurus July 8, 2016
• Diaries from Hundreds—even Thousands—of Years Ago May 31, 2016
• Review of The Little Hunchback Zia by Frances Hodgson Burnett January 28, 2016
• Review of Your Sacred Yes by Susie Larson July 31, 2015
• Book Review of Until the Harvest by Sarah Loudin Thomas June 6, 2015
• Book Review of The Pleasure of His Company by Dutch Sheets April 15, 2015
• The Junior Instructor, my First Encyclopedia March 15, 2015
• Valentine’s Day Review of Cotillion by Georgette Heyer February 14, 2015
• Review of Looking Backward 2000 – 1887, Part 3 January 17, 2015
• Review of Looking Backward 2000 – 1887, Part 2 December 28, 2014
• Review of Looking Backward 2000 – 1887 October 31, 2014
• Review of Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love Chase September 30, 2014
• Review of Celebrating Milestones by Adeola Adekugbe August 6, 2014
• Louisa May Alcott’s First Novel, The Inheritance July 20, 2014
• Louisa May Alcott’s Pauline’s Passion and Punishment June 26, 2014
• The Versatility of Louisa May Alcott: Behind a Mask May 20, 2014
• Book Review of This Day: A Collection of Simple Prayers March 8, 2014
• Book Review of Thorn in My Heart by Liz Curtis Higgs February 2, 2014
• Book review of The Bedside Book of the Art of Living December 7, 2013
• Book Review of My Antonia by Willa Cather November 24, 2013
• Book review of The Bible Animal Storybook by Mack Thomas June 19, 2013
• Book review of What is a Book App and Could YOU Create One? by Karen Robertson May 28, 2013
• Book review of The Rainbow Egg by Linda Hendricks, M.D. May 21, 2013
• How Technology can Cause Hyperactivity – In the Absence of the Sacred May 20, 2013
• Book Review of The Sky Beneath My Feet by Lisa Samson April 10, 2013
• Valentine’s Day Book Review of Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher February 28, 2013
• I Love Old Books! (Part 4) January 31, 2013
• Book Review of 20,000 Days and Counting by Robert D. Smith (eBook) January 29, 2013
• I Love Old Books! (Part 3) January 9, 2013
• Book Review of A Year with G.K. Chesterton November 10, 2012
• I Love Old Books! (Part 2) September 19, 2012
• I Love Old Books! August 29, 2012
• Book Review of Destiny’s Hands, a novel by Violet Nesdoly August 14, 2012
• Book Review of Travelers Rest by Ann Tatlock August 6, 2012
• Book review of At the Robot Zoo by Harris Tobias April 18, 2012
• Book Review of Surprised by Laughter: the Comic World of C.S. Lewis by Terry Lindvall, PH.D. March 31, 2012
• Book Review of Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! March 18, 2012
• Valentine’s Day Book Review of Arabella, by Georgette Heyer February 14, 2012
• Revolution in World Missions February 1, 2012
• Review of The Taste of Snow December 21, 2011
• Review of Heaven is Real for Kids (eBook) December 7, 2011
• Review of Fractions = Trouble! by Claudia Mills November 23, 2011
• Book Review of Our Last Great Hope by Ronnie Floyd November 8, 2011
• Review of Upside, by Bradley R.E. Wright October 11, 2011
• Understanding math a la Sir Cumference August 21, 2011
• Fasting by Scot McKnight May 3, 2011
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey April 20, 2011
• Review of Pride and Prejudice March 8, 2011
• Another Georgette Heyer book for Valentine’s Day February 16, 2011
• Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson February 9, 2011