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Interesting Take On Travel. I fully admit to traveling more for leisure than learning and certainly more than being some kind of activist. I try to be a decent enough human being no matter where I am, whether that be in my own home or some far-flu

The Most Fantastical Sigma Book Yet - Yet Also Much More Real Than Previous Attempts. You can almost see in this book where Rollins was working on his fantasy books by this point, or at least his mind was already going that directio

Solid "Locked In" Mystery Asks Serious Questions. This is one of those "everyone is trapped in the house, and

Johnny Cash Was (At Least Partly) Wrong! Admittedly, the title of this review is mostly click-bait. But it *is* an accurate summary of this text - and yes, the tex

Soraya Lane Takes On Auschwitz. How can you be a historical fiction writer who mostly focuses on the European theater of WWII... and *not*, at some point, do a story about Auschwitz? Well, the answer here is... you can't, and this is Lane's take on it.

Now, how can you be an amateur historian, with large amounts of knowledge about large amounts of things - and familial ties to the liberation of concentr

Hilarious NYC-Based Rom-Com. This book has several different things going on at once, which can seem a bit chaotic - and seems to be meant to. The base set

Extensive Focus On COVID Mars Otherwise Intriguing Story. The break about 1/3 into this book to focus on mostly new characters for another 1/4 to 1/3

For this blog tour, we're looking at a great work that shows the complex yet all too real lives of some WWII veterans you've likely never heard of. For this blog tour, we're looking at Women Of The Post by Joshunda Sanders.

Here's what I had to say about it on Goodreads:

Well Told Story Based On Real Unit/ People. This is a story probably unlike most any other you've encountered in historical fiction of WWII. Even if you've read about mail carrriers (there are a few such books out that I'm aware of, and likely more that I'm not), you likely haven't read about *these* mail clerks. Even if you've read about African American servicemembers during the war, you likely haven't read about *these* African American servicemembers during the war. Even if you've read about LGBT people during the war... you get the idea.

One thing that became interesting to me as I read this was thinking of the grandmother I don't often think of much, my mom's mom. But this was the grandmother that was married during WWII, and who bore her first child - my oldest uncle - just months before D-Day. Her husband at the time, my grandfather, I've spoken of a fair amount in reviews of WWII books, including his Silver Star and Purple Heart for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge. But here, the connection is with his wife, back home in Georgia alone (presumably with family around) with their infant son. You see, even when I knew her almost 40 years later, during the dawn of the Personal Computer era and as the Net was coming online (she would die a few years after the Dot Com Bust of the mid 2000s, having outlived both of her husbands and sharing this earth for over 23 years with me)... that woman always *loved* writing and receiving letters. Actual, handwritten, long form, letters. As with my grandfathers and their experiences in WWII, I can't *know* what she went through living through that era - I never once asked her about it. But seeing how letters and morale were stressed so dearly in thi

Quite Possibly More Demented And Disturbing Than The First. This is one of those

Strong Claims Need Strong Evidence, But I Read The Audible. This is another book that has a lot of strong claims that thus req