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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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Monday, July 27, 2009

A visual preview of the fall season, part three

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I'm late in getting this final group of covers posted. The good news about my tardiness, though, is that many of these titles will be av...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Interesting cover...

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After finishing up The Taste of Sorrow , I pulled my old copy of Wuthering Heights off the shelf (it has my former name and homeroom pencil...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Forthcoming titles, and an old book gets a makeover

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I've finished compiling an update to the forthcoming books list on the Historical Novel Society website. It's only July, but a few p...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Book review: Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow

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In historical fiction circles, the Brontës look set to become this year’s Tudors, prompting questions on whether the world needs yet another...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Win a copy of Julian Stockwin's upcoming Kydd novel, Invasion

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Thanks to McBooks Press , I have five ARCs of Invasion , the 10th novel in Julian Stockwin's Kydd series, to offer to Reading the Past v...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Book review: Susan Holloway Scott's The French Mistress

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(This is the first of three reviews of novels by authors consistently given Editor's Choice status by the Historical Novels Review. I ta...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

What's next on the blog

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This is really just a placeholder until I have more time for a proper post. Deadlines always have a way of creeping up, but during the past ...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

And the books go to...

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Copies of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree will shortly be making their way around the globe. The three winners of last Saturday'...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

An opportunity to read Rachel DuPree's personal history for yourself

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Not long after I posted my interview with Ann Weisgarber on April 27th, she generously offered to send copies of The Personal History of Ra...
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Book review: Anna Elliott's Twilight of Avalon

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(I finished Twilight of Avalon before leaving for the conference, which meant I got the opportunity to mention it in my "best new histo...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

HNS conference linkfest

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(me, Joyce Saricks, and Georgine Olson speaking at our "what to read and why" panel at 8:30am on Saturday) I've been back in ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Tote bag stuffing party: before and after

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

And so, the big conference adventure begins

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It's Wednesday morning, and the trunk of our SUV is completely full of tote bags, programs, and assorted flyers and promo items sent by ...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

A few photos from BEA and elsewhere

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This was me about an hour ago, at my scheduled blogger signing at booth #4077 (cue theme music). Levi Asher of Literary Kicks , whose site/b...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

BEA report, day 1

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I'm here at the official librarians' hotel at BEA in midtown Manhattan, completely exhausted after walking the exhibit hall all morn...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A visual preview of the fall season, part two

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I really ought to be packing... I'm flying out tomorrow morning and hope to blog from BEA as time permits. In the meantime, here's ...
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Reviews of obscure books: Jean Clark's Untie the Winds

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Clark, Jean. Untie the Winds. NY: Kensington, 1978. 498pp. Prev. published in hardcover, 1976. Out of print, copies readily available via P...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Giveaway winner

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Good morning, everyone! I was up at 7:30am, on this first day of a holiday weekend, because of my neighbor's annoying habit of getting ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Guest post / giveaway from Christine Blevins: A Novel Idea

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Historical novelist Christine Blevins, who I interviewed for Reading the Past last September, is stopping by with a guest post on unexpecte...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Conference schedule

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I'm buried in HNS conference preparations, something that will undoubtedly continue through mid-June, but I thought I'd post about t...
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