🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Not for the faint of heart, this exhaustively researched, beautifully presented historical analysis on a very complex and controversial subject is rich with detail and incredibly compelling. If “un-attractiveness” can be “linked” as one factor that may contribute to criminality, can corrective surgery be demonstrated to play a role…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A quiet masterpiece, (in spirit somewhat reminiscent of Penny Haw’s brilliant #TheWildernessBetweenUs), set in a rural village deep in the vinelands of Germany, this is a story to be savored. As luminous as the first glimpse of a sudden and glorious sunrise, the slowly developing magic of this dazzling…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A brand new mystery series - featuring an odd and endearing trio of female sleuths, together forming one of the most unlikely crime-solving agencies (code named the SeeMs) you are likely to meet between the pages. Cat Harrington : multi-lingual, very tall, 60-ish, is a “tiger-mother” of a woman,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 “In victory you deserve champagne. In defeat, you need it.” (Napoleon) An engrossing and illuminating look at one of the most fascinating female entrepreneurs to grace the pages of history - Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot - who in the early eighteen hundreds, went on to build Veuve-Clicquot Champagne from…
