[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The doors of decision are one-way only. You can never go back. I’ll never be the same person again.” Ben Solomon, a survivor of the Nazi invasion of Poland, is watching TV one day in his older years and sees a face he could never forget. The […] Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. BalsonThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on June 11, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] For May, the Online Book Club will read and discuss Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson. I love historical fiction and this book sounds interesting – two men who grew up as brothers, but one possibly betrays the other during the Holocaust. Here is the […] May Online Book Club Annoucement: Once We Were Brothers by ...This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged historical fiction Online Book Club on April 11, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
3 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?” Charlie St. Cloud is pregnant in 1947 and the only thing she feels in control of is the search for her cousin, Rose, who disappeared at the end of the war. Eve […] The Alice Network by Kate QuinnThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on April 2, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Before falling into a fitful sleep, Fred wonders if he’s already dead. Perhaps this is Hell. But he can’t, for the life of him, remember what sin he ever committed to be punished this terribly.” Fred is dead, but his spirit has not been released from the […] Fred’s Funeral by Sandy DayThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction historical fiction on March 30, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
“I had overlooked the propensity of the dying to tell their story. The need to be heard one last time.” Betsy’s world starts to fall apart after her brother dies on an MIA mission in Vietnam. She acts up at school and is told to spend the rest of the […] Revenants: The Odyssey Home by Scott KauffmanThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction historical fiction on March 23, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter
“Once you knew – really knew – of the women and children being shot in the woods, of the shower rooms constructed for the sole purpose of killing, how could you not act?” In The Women in the Castle, three women in Germany have their lives forever changed during World […] The Women in the Castle by Jessica ShattuckThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on October 27, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
“Life is a series of unlikely events, isn’t it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what’s still to come?” Miri Ammerman is a typical 15-year-old girl, worrying about fashion, boys and school. Life with a single mom seems […] In the Unlikely Event by Judy BlumeThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction historical fiction Online Book Club on September 29, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. I just finished the book late last night and I was thoroughly engrossed […] Online Book Club: The Women in the Castle by Jessica ...This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged historical fiction Online Book Club on September 27, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume. Over the course of a year, three planes crashed in the town of Elizabeth, […] Online Book Club: In the Unlikely Event by Judy BlumeThis entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged historical fiction Online Book Club on August 30, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely on the words of others.” Some books stick with you because the stories are wonderfully written. Others are unforgettable because the story needs to […] Homegoing by Yaa GyasiThis entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged historical fiction Online Book Club on July 21, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter