In The House Is On Fire, Rachel Beanland recounts the chaotic true story of the 1811 theater fire in Richmond, VA as told from four perspectives. There is Jack, a stage hand who witnesses the inciting event and grapples with doing the right thing. Cecily, an enslaved woman who takes her freedom into her own… Continue reading Review: The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
Battle Scars by Sam Maggs takes place a few years after the Fallen Order game (I suspect this book might take place around the same time as the Obi-Wan series?) I'm also not sure if this book happens right before the sequel game coming out in April, Jedi Survivor, or a year or two beforehand.… Continue reading Review: battle Scars by Sam Maggs
Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt follows three women during Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846: Eliza Macy, the once-wealthy but now financially ruined wife of an absent whaling captain. Maria Mitchell, librarian and archivist at Nantucket's Atheneum. Meg Wright, a free black woman who fights for her family's right to own a business on main… Continue reading Review: Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt
Click the image to read my review of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley on Journal of the American Revolution.
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