Coventry

June’s Bookmark ~ Bookmark It! Club

6 Jun By Jennifer 4 Comments

I am almost finished with June’s bookmarks. I ran out of contact paper last night (and that’s the only hint you’re going to get out of me), so I need to pick up some more today. They will be in the mail on Monday. Hurray! In case you haven’t seen it, Valarie from Life is [...]

Filed Under: Bookmark It! Club Tagged With: A Silent Ocean Away, Andrew Sean Greer, Christine Blevins, Coventry, Daphne Du Maurier, DeVa Gantt, Frenchman's Creek, Helen Humphries, Judith Ryan Hend, Precious, Sandra Novack, The Laws of Harmony, The Story of a Marriage: A Novel, The Tory Widow

#160 ~ Coventry

7 May By Jennifer 13 Comments

Coventry by Helen Humphreys During World War II, the city of Coventry was bombed during a long, terrible night of destruction. Coventry, a novel by Helen Humphreys, takes us through that night through the eyes of Harriet, a war widow from World War I and Maeve a single mother of a nearly grown son. That [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, fiction, Historical Fiction, War Through the Generations Tagged With: Coventry, Coventry Blitz, England, Helen Humphreys, History, Luftwaffe, W. W. Norton & Company, World War II

The Sunday Salon ~ 04.26.09

26 Apr By Jennifer 20 Comments

I hope that all of you had a wonderful week. The weather here has been beautiful, but too hot for April. It was in the low 90s yesterday, making Vinton, VA‘s annual Dogwood Festival and Parade an enjoyable, but sweaty occasion. Let’s just say that I got myself a snow cone along with the girls [...]

Filed Under: The Sunday Salon Tagged With: Andrew Sean Greer, Blog Talk Radio, Boneman's Daughters, Christine Blevins, Coventry, Helen Humphreys, Judith Ryan Hendricks, Karen White, Muriel Spark, New Mexico, Picador, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, snow cones, Ted Dekker, The Laws of Harmony, The Lost Hours, The Story of a Marriage: A Novel, The Tory Widow, TLC Book Tours, Twitter