Devourer of Books

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Original publication date: 1954
This week is banned books week in the United States.  All week I will be highlighting banned, challenged, and censored books I own and have read.
Publisher description:
William Golding’s classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is [...]

Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare
I was lucky enough to receive this book from Penguin Classics in exchange for reviewing it on their site when they decided to send out each of the 1400 Penguin Classics to a different reviewer.  The books were assigned at random, so I was very fortunate to get something [...]

…now it is up to all of you to decide the winner! Who will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com? Seven stories were sent to me in the Far World: Water Keep contest. J. Scott Savage, author of Far World will be choosing his favorite entry to win a personalized, signed [...]

Margaret George’s “Memoirs of Cleopatra” begins with the young princess Cleopatra’s memory of General Pompey coming to Egypt and her role in charming him with her wit and personality in order to help her father keep his kingdom and of course tells her story up through her infamous death.
I feel like I did not give [...]

“Victoria Victorious” is one of the the longer of the Jean Plaidy books I have read. Now, this makes some sense as Queen Victoria is still the English monarch with the longest reign. However, the length, composition, and flow of the novel reminded me greatly of “Queen of This Realm,” Plaidy’s novel of Queen Elizabeth.
Indeed, [...]

Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex tells the story of the daughters of the Duke of Ferrera. Isabella, the elder daughter, desires to be powerful and adored, and most of all to achieve immortality by being painted by the Magistro, Leonardo Da Vinci. Her younger sister, Beatrice, desires most of all to love and be loved [...]