Happy Sunday, everyone! I hope that this post finds you fat and happy after a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving was fun this year because both girls had an understanding of what it is about and actually wanted to watch the parade with us Thursday morning. This also promises to be a fun Christmas as well. [...]
Mansfield Park Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment by Joan Aiken I first read Mansfield Park in my early 20s. A co-worker let me borrow her copy. It was my introduction to Jane Austen and, perhaps as a result, it has always been my favorite Austen novel. Although I’m not much of one for sequels to [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest and left a comment. I got some great leads on future reads and I hope that everyone else did, too! There were 22 entries for this contest and I added everyone’s name into the List Randomizer. Grand Prize Winner The winner of a copy of Midwife of the [...]
Midwife of the Blue Ridge by Christine Blevins Maggie Duncan lost her family as a very young girl during a massacre between the British and the Scottish. Her destiny falls into place when she helps a injured man find his way home to his wife, Hannah. Hannah, a midwife and local healer, realizes almost instantly [...]
This has been a difficult week for many of us out here in book blogging land. Up until now, I have not weighed in on it, but I’ve been following it very closely. I wish I had something eloquent to say, but others have written down my thoughts before I got the chance and I [...]
Last week was a wonderful week for Literate Housewife’s mailbox (front porch, actually). It was a bonanza of wonderful books and was by far the most exciting mail week I’ve had since I started my blog. So, what was it that makes me so excited? Take a look: The Reluctant Widow and The Conqueror by [...]
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