by Laura DeNooyer | Aug 6, 2025 | Book Reviews
Terri Wangard’s World War I and World War II fiction employ a variety of settings besides Germany, including the home front of Wisconsin, her home state. No Neutral Ground was set in Sweden. Seashells in My Pocket takes place in Brazil, while her most recent...
by Laura DeNooyer | Jan 21, 2025 | Book Reviews
I’M RUNNING A GIVEAWAY OF MICHELLE’S NEWEST BOOK—SEE BELOW. Novelist Michelle Shocklee has been a guest on this blog several times and I’m thrilled to host her again. Besides featuring Michelle’s most recent release (Oct 1, 2024), I want to share her other...
by Laura DeNooyer | Apr 16, 2024 | Book Reviews
With so many World War II stories set in Europe or America, Seashells in My Pocket by Terri Wangard is a breath of fresh air—both figuratively and literally. The unique setting is Brazil. Several scenes take place on the Atlantic seashore by Recife or Natal—vivid...
by Laura DeNooyer | Mar 5, 2024 | Book Reviews
With all the thousands of World War II novels out there, sometimes I wonder how novelists keep coming up with fresh new stories. But considering all the people and places impacted by that world-wide catastrophe, even decades later, I suppose World War II authors will...
by Laura DeNooyer | Feb 20, 2024 | Book Reviews
I’ve read numerous World War II novels. Yet all I know about London’s evacuation of children is from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Which is ironic, because author Patti Callahan Henry’s novel, The Secret Book of Flora Lea, was inspired when...
