Bookfoolery

Violette is young, energetic, athletic, and smart. She is also half-British, half-French and staying with her aunt in France as the country ...

Both of these books are middle grade and (surprise!) I read an e-book! You know how often that happens.  The Runaways by Holly Webb is a WW...

In the prologue to The London House by Katherine Reay, it's the 1940s in Occupied France. A woman named Caro has gone to the House of S...

These two reviews describe the second and third in the Throwback middle-grade trilogy by Peter Lerangis. I've reviewed the first book, ...

The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck is a fictionalized account of Virginia Hall's work in occupied France during about the final 6 mont...

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac is a YA novel about a Navajo code talker in #WWII but it begins with the main character's childhood. Sent ...

Mini review time! All of these books are from my personal library.  Mosquitoland by David Arnold is a YA book about a teenage girl named Mi...

James Hunter, an English officer in the RAF, has been shot down on his first bombing mission and taken to a German POW camp. While other pri...

I bought and read Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse after finding out there was going to be a "buddy read" (really, a small g...

They Called Us Enemy is George Takei's graphic novel about his family's time in two separate internment camps during WWII. It t...

In The Prisoner's Wife , Izabela is a Czechoslovakian farm girl and Bill is a British prisoner of war. It's 1944 as the story ope...

More minis! And, all of these were excellent, all from my own shelves. Although Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an ARC, I didn...

More minis! I've put my favorite of the three at the top, just in case anyone decides my reviews are boring and can only get through the...

I knew I would read The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris eventually, since it's a WWII novel. But, it was my F2F group's...

Camille used to be a photographer but she put away her camera and her fearless lifestyle after her husband's tragic death. And, her d...

You know how nervous you can get about a book that so high on your wish list that you're afraid it won't meet your soaring expect...

The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner is about two girls who meet in an internment camp during WWII. Elise Sontag's father is a...

Alpine Ballad by Vasil Bykau is a WWII novel like none I've ever read, before, a story of escape and survival. Near the end of WWI...

I'd like to think I jumped the gun reading Kate Quinn's The Huntress (a February, 2019 release) early because I was in a hurry t...

This is the second installment, which gets me to all but the final book of the year. There's only one book, of these three, that I didn...