Reading this was a bit of a departure from the books that have been drawing my interest lately. However, it was set in Ireland and sounded like an intriguing sort of historical novel. The Blind Astronomer's Daughter (due to publish October 11, 2016) is a meticulously detailed story of men's search o...
Really liked this one! The writing is beautiful, poetic in style. The book is based on a real life event in which Henry David Thoreau and a companion accidentally set the woods outside of Concord on fire. The incident plays as a backdrop to a whole slew of interesting characters and their lives and ...