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Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Historical fiction award winners announced at the 2023 ALA LibLearnX conference

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The 2023 Book and Media Award announcements from the American Library Association's LibLearnX conference in New Orleans were broadcast o...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

What we can learn about historical fiction reading (and reviewing) from an AI chatbot

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Over the past several weeks, I’ve been fascinated by ChatGPT , the artificial intelligence chatbot that responds to prompts in a conversatio...
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Sunday, January 22, 2023

Laurie Lico Albanese's Hester imagines an origin story for The Scarlet Letter's heroine

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In 1829, seamstress Isobel Gamble, just nineteen, leaves Glasgow with her apothecary husband, Edward, planning to make a new start in Americ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

This Other Eden by Paul Harding exposes the shameful history of Maine's Malaga Island

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A superb achievement, Pulitzer Prize-winner Harding’s ( Enon, 2013) third novel fictionalizes a shameful true episode from American history...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Through a Darkening Glass by R. S. Maxwell, a gothic-tinged mystery set in 1940s Lancashire

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In summer 1940, Ruth Gladstone, an English literature student at Girton College, Cambridge, evacuates with her grandmother to the Lancashire...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

All the historical novel titles you could ever need

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Very recently, I've been noticing a trend in historical fiction titles. Have you seen this too?  One might say that they're... all o...
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Sunday, January 08, 2023

Set in Stone by Stela Brinzeanu, a novel of women's lives and the oppressive patriarchy of medieval Moldova

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The publisher’s tagline for this debut novel caught my attention: “In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love.” W...