TCL’s Top Five (or 10) Favorite Books of 2019

2019 - the Year of the Winning Women Writers!

Breaking the Broadcasts

Book Review for "The Lost Girls of Paris" by Pam Jenoff

Restoring Lost Loves

Book Review for "The Ghost of Madison Avenue" by Nancy Bilyeau

TCL’s Eight Candle Book Tag Link Party #EightCandleBookTag for 2019

As you already know from my post last week (where you’ll find the concept and the topics), I invented a new meme to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah with all of my book blogging friends, of all races, creeds, religions, genders, and whatever. I’m calling it…

The Chocolate Lady’s

Eight Candle Book Tag Link Party!

Connecting Jewish Worlds

Book Review for "White Zion: Stories" by Gila Green

Top Ten Tuesday for December 17, 2019: Winter TBR.

This week’s topic: Winter TBR

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules are simple:

• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

Announcing the Chocolate Lady's Eight Candle Book Tag!

It seems like so many of my friends are busy doing things like setting up Advent reading lists, telling everyone what books they want Santa to put under their trees, or which books would make good stocking-stuffers. That's really lovely, and I'm glad that this time of year brings out such creativity.

But...

Finding Gin's Fizz

Book Review for "The Wicked Redhead" by Beatriz Williams

TCL’s Countdown Questions #26: Author Rebecca Rosenberg.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL’s Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Rebecca Rosenberg!

#6Degrees of Separation for December 7, 2019.

From “Sanditon” by Jane Austen to “Brother and Sister” by Joanna Trollope.

This is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain. The rules are here in this graphic.

This month we started with “Sanditon” by Jane Austen.

Sunsetting at Dawn

Book Review for "Daisy Jones & The Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

TCL's Countdown Questions #24: Author Kate Braithwaite.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Kate Braithwaite!

TCL is joining the New Release Challenge (again) for 2020!

2020 New Release Challenge Sign-up

About the 2020 New Release Challenge...

Galloping Into Danger

Book Review for "Mercy Road: A Novel" by Ann Howard Creel.

TCL’s Countdown Questions #23: Author Therese Walsh

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Therese Walsh!

Nine Times Naughty Atwood

Book Review for “Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales” by Margaret Atwood

TCL’s Countdown Questions #22: Author, Screenwriter & Director Allison Burnett

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author, screenwriter, and director Allison Burnett!

Some Royalty Blues

Book Review for "The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel" by Georgie Blalock.

TCL’s Countdown Questions #21: Author & Playwright David Blixt

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL’s Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author & Playwright David Blixt!

#6Degrees of Separation for November 2, 2019.

From “Alice in Wonderland” Lewis Carroll to “The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox” by Maggie O'Farrell.

Marriages of the Mines

Book Review for "Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor" by Rebecca Rosenberg

TCL’s Countdown Questions #20: Author Greer Macallister

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL’s Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Greer Macallister!

A Path to Changing Gears.

Book Review for "The Art of Regret: A Novel" by Mary Fleming.

TCL's Countdown Questions #19: Author Meg Waite Clayton

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Meg Waite Clayton!

Is Facebook a New Version of Fahrenheit 451?

Or maybe, Facebook just hates ME!

But they're burning my book blog!

Games, Sets, and Mismatched.

Book Review for "Right After the Weather" by Carol Anshaw.

TCL’s Countdown Questions #18: Author Nancy Bilyeau

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL’s Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Nancy Bilyeau!

#6Degrees of Separation for October 5, 2019.

From “Three Women” Lisa Taddeo to “The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress” by Ariel Lawhon.

TCL is going on Vacation Abroad!

See you later, alligators!

Liberty, Equality, Sorority!

Book Review for “Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women” by Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Kate Quinn, and Heather Webb.

TCL's Countdown Questions #17: Author Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

TCL's Literary Musings: Women's Fiction.

What is Women’s Fiction? Is it really a genre? How does it differ from chick-lit?

TCL’s Countdown Questions #16: Author Mary Doria Russell.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL’s Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Mary Doria Russell

Saving a Whole World

Book Review for "The Last Train to London" by Meg Waite Clayton

TCL's Countdown Questions #15: Author Roz Morris.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author, editor, speaker, writing coach, ghost-writer, (and my friend)Roz Morris.

#6Degrees of Separation for September 7, 2019.

#6Degrees of Separation for September 7, 2019.

From “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles to “The Last Mrs. Parrish” by Liv Constantine.

A Good Ghost

Book Review for "Signed, Mata Hari" by Yannick Murphy

TCL’s Countdown Questions #14: Author Jane Healey.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL’s Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Jane Healey.

Three for the Price of One!

Book Review for "The Lady and the Highwayman" by Sarah M. Eden

TCL joins the 2019 It's So Classic Blog Party

It's So Classic

This is a yearly blog party that takes place during the month of August, with 10 questions about reading classic novels.

TCL's Countdown Questions #13: Author Crystal King.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring authorCrystal King.

But That is Not My Point.

Book Review for “Klotsvog” by Margarita Khemlin (Translated by Lisa C. Hayden).

TCL's Countdown Questions #12: Author Andrea Bobotis.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week I’m featuring author Andrea Bobotis.

A Delicious Phoenix.

Book review for "The Chocolate Maker's Wife" by Karen Brooks.

TCL's Countdown Questions #11: Authors Heather Webb & Hazel Gaynor.

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week featuring authors 

Heather Webb & Hazel Gaynor.

Hiding Her Time.

Book Review for "Vivian" by Christina Hesselholdt, translated by Paul Russell Garrett

If you’ve never heard of the photographer Vivian Maier, that’s totally understandable. In fact, no one knew about her until about 2007, two years before she died, when the contents of her storage facilities were sold because she wasn’t paying her bills.

TCL's Countdown Questions #10 - Author Kate Quinn

An Alternative Author Interview:

TCL's Countdown Questions.

This week featuring author Kate Quinn.

#6Degrees of Separation for August 3, 2019

From "Shtum" by Jem Lester to "Kiss Me First" by Lottie Moggach.

This is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. 

Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.