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Beatriz is stopping by Writer’s Corner to talk Summer and the drive of the 1930s

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Thank you Beatriz for stopping by.    Beatriz just got back from the National Romance Writer’s Conference which was in Atlanta Georgia this year. What draws you to write historical fiction?   History has always fascinated me, and particularly the human aspects of history. I remember when I first visited England and stood on the site of Anne Boleyn’s scaffold in the Tower of London, I felt this extraordinary exhilaration at the idea that I was standing in that very spot, that I was looking at the exact same stones and walls she had: that the two of us, who were separated by an almost unimaginable distance of time and culture and multitudes of people living and dying, had met for this instant on a common ground. Every single historical event, large and small, was enacted by fellow human beings who breathed and felt and ate and drank, and before it became a written chronicle it was a present reality and then a living memory. So it isn’t just history that compels me, it’s the vi

What Happened One Summer Night in 1938?

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Thank you to Putnam Books and Beatriz Williams for sending A Hundred Summers . This is her second novel.   I am delighted to share it with you. Meet Budgie who is known for getting what she wants whenever she wants it.   Her gal pal Lily always accompanies but steps aside for her friend.   The women travel in the fall of 1931 to see Nick Greenwald and his friend Graham Pendleton at a football game.   Lily immediately falls for Nick while Budgie cautions her.   On New Years Lily and Nick make a decision that could affect their future.   What will happen to the both of them?    How will things have changed in 1938? My Thoughts: I couldn’t say no to another Beatriz Williams novel.    The story is told in two different time periods 1931 from fall forward and then the summer of 1938.   The writer leaves you with enough questions to continue forward in the novel in both time periods.   I thought the novel was a little slow in the beginning. It picked up pace about halfw

Wonder what life was like back in the 80s?

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Welcome back to the 80s!   Thank you to BookSparks PR and Fiction Studio Books for sending me a copy to share with you.     I am glad to share Jennifer Gooch Hummer’s novel Girl Unmoored . Synopsis: Apron lives in Maine and has recently lost her mother.   The new woman in her dad’s life M may not be what she seems.     M seems to enjoy wreaking havoc in Apron’s life.     As Apron goes through the year and goes what will she discover about herself?   How will she survive her mother’s death?     Then there is life at school.   What will she do without her best friend Rennie?   My Thoughts: Girl Unmoored is a beautiful moving tale about a girl named Apron and her experiences.    The novel is told from the perspective of a thirteen year old’s world.     I felt that it was written well.   Also it is set in the 1980s.   Who doesn’t remember that time in their life?    I know I look upon it with fond memories.    The main themes in the story are second marriages by