March 2023 - Page 2 of 4 - A Literary Escape

Book Review: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

Published on March 23, 2023March 18, 2023 by Celeste5 Comments

Today’s review is about THE WOMAN THEY COULD NOT SILENCE by Kate Moore. This is a nonfiction account of Elizabeth Packard’s committal to an insane asylum against her will in 1860. Her experience drove her to devote her life to reforming the laws governing psychiatric hospitals and patient treatment.

Author: Kate Moore
Series: None
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publish Date: June 22, 2021
Audio Length: 14 hours, 36 minutes
Narrator: Kate Moore

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Book Blogger Hop: March 17-23

Published on March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 by Celeste10 Comments

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Book Blogger Hop post image was created by Coffee Addicted Writer.

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BBNYA Blog Tour: Bloodlaced by Courtney Maguire

Published on March 20, 2023October 14, 2024 by Celeste4 Comments

Today I bring you my book review of BLOODLACED by Courtney Maguire. BLOODLACED placed 9th in the final round of the 2022 Book Bloggers Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA).

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 finalists and one overall winner. If you are an author and wish to learn more about the BBNYA competition, you can visit the official website or Twitter @bbnya_official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Author: Courtney Maguire
Genre: Paranormal
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: City Owl Press
Publish Date: 29 September 2020
Print Length: 314
Link: Amazon and Goodreads

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Would You Rather Book Tag

Published on March 19, 2023March 18, 2023 by Celeste8 Comments

It’s been a while since I did a book tag. So I looked through some saved tags and picked the Would You Rather Book Tag. I first saw this on Mint’s blog. But Thrice Read transcribed the questions from a Buzzfeed article. This book tag bills itself as the hardest game of “Would You Rather” for book nerds. Based on the presented scenario, pick which one you would rather have to deal with. Let’s get started on the Would You Rather Book Tag!

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First Lines Fridays: March 17, 2023

Published on March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 by Celeste11 Comments

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The rules are as follows:

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

If you’re using Twitter, don’t forget to use #FirstLinesFridays!

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