Tag: historical fiction
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A 20th Century Pioneer
In these days of an enormous to-read list on goodreads and an online library reserve system, I don’t spend a lot of time browsing the stacks any more. Though I probably stop by the library about once a week, I truly get in and get out. On Saturday, the same song was playing on the…
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Favorites of 2012
Now that the hustle and bustle of Christmas is past (and I look forward to lots of lazy yet productive days at home), I’ve started doing my annual sorting and cleaning throughout the house. And somehow, that always includes looking back at my year in books. Below are a few favorite kidlit history books of…
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Riding into history
I began to feel that myself plus the bicycle equaled myself plus the world, upon whose spinning wheel we must all learn to ride, or fall into oblivion and despair. –Frances Willard Election Day is almost upon us. I think the only thing that everyone can agree on is that it’s all been very interesting.…
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Things that make me happy. . .
Staying up past midnight, finishing one of the best books I’ve read all year. And did I mention that it’s historical fiction? Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein probably has a very long wait-list at the library (it took me months to get it), but it’s so worth the wait. British women in World War…
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Story first, history second
Perhaps I was a wee bit prejudiced as I started reading. Friends that I trusted had very mixed reviews, but I didn’t quite believe them. After all, the book had won the 2011 Newbery award. And it was set in 1936, flashing back to 1917 and 1918. Quite possibly one of my favorite time periods. I should…
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What if?
Many moons ago (11 years ago, to be exact. Good lord, how time flies!), I was an intern at the Women’s Museum. Part of my job was to process the many, many loans–it’s a non-collecting institution so every artifact on display had to come from somewhere else. I have many, many stories about that summer…
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A new kind of historical fiction?
It’s not often that there’s a great, free, literary event in Dallas. I still think longingly of my days in Raleigh, when I was just 10 minutes away from one of the best indie bookstores in the US. I went to author events all the time–Sue Monk Kidd, Linda Sue Park (right after she won…
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A few more like her. . .
Though I have a lot of issues with most modern historical fiction, there are a few authors that I just trust. Richard Peck. Christopher Paul Curtis. Karen Hesse. I first became familiar with her through Out of the Dust, a book that ultimately won the Newbery. If I ever taught the 1930s, this book would…
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A Politically Incorrect Confession
I have never been a fan of Native American history. It’s not the guilt over how we stole their land and slaughtered them, whether by disease or guns. No, it’s really just that I am not an outdoorsy person. And living off the land has never been something that interested me. I admire that some tribes…
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