Aminata is home. As we all know home is a place you can never go again, things are about to radically change. Arriving in Sierra Leone, Aminata discovers the British are once again long on good intentions and short on… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Historical
The Book of Negroes E5
Canada has a reputation in America as being a traditional safe haven. Slaves, draft dodgers, whatever, Canada is known as the land of polite refuge. E5 is here to blow that up. Aminata arrives in Nova Scotia pregnant, alone and… Read more »
The Book of Negroes E3 and E4
When we closed E2 all trust between Lindo and Aminata had been broken by his conspiracy with Appleby. Arriving in New York, Aminata is shocked to discover a community of free blacks. In addition to the shanty town, the inn Lindo… Read more »
The Book of Negroes E2
In Episode 2 Aminata Diallo is all grown up and attracting the master’s notice. (It’s going to be difficult to be vague about this episode because it sets up the major relationship arcs for the whole series.) In E1 we… Read more »
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill E1
As I’m still not reading I’ve been catching up on television. @ReignofApril was tweeting about B.E.T.’s adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes (published in America as Someone Knows My Name) so I set the TiVo. I remember… Read more »
Awakening His Duchess by Katy Madison
You guys!! This is the best and worst book ever!! I can’t wait to talk about it in totally spoileriffic detail! Awakening His Duchess is Katy Madison’s update of the traditional I-Was-A-(Spoiler-Alert)-Plantation-Novel!! Can you see me waving my hands around… Read more »
The Fox and The Angel by Danelle Harmon
The Fox And The Angel is a low commitment read for readers new to Danelle Harmon. It’s a short novella that feels… short. Harmon was a 90’s auto buy for me but I was less than excited by this holiday tale. I… Read more »
For Love And Liberty by Alyssa Cole, Kate McMurray, Lena Hart, Stacey Agdern
For Love & Liberty; Untold Love Stories of the American Revolution was recommended to me on Twitter. Overall, it was a good suggestion. Four different novellas make up the collection with a very attractive ebook price. I did not love… Read more »
When A Stranger Loves Me by Julianne MacLean
(I’m tired of writing DNF reviews and tired of hating everything but it’s one of those weeks. Instead of running no content today I thought I’d bring back a post from one of my now-deleted former blogs. Welcome to 2009.) Julianne… Read more »
The Luckiest Lady In London by Sherry Thomas
I admired The Luckiest Lady In London. I admired it because Sherry Thomas took some risks that will pay out big for readers who are not me. I admired it because this is the exceedingly rare book where the sex… Read more »
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