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Sarah Johnson
Collection management librarian, readers' advisor, avid historical fiction reader, NBCC member. Book review editor for the Historical Novels Review and Booklist reviewer. Recipient of ALA's Louis Shores Award for book reviewing (2012). Blogging since 2006.
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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...
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