Ok, well she DID do Dallas. I had the fabulous opportunity of meeting with Margaret George after her Arts  & Letters Live lecture that was held at the Dallas Museum in April for her Elizabeth I: A Novel tour. You can read my review of Elizabeth I here. I loved the book, and I was so thrilled that she...

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Penguin/Viking/Pamela Dorman Books (April 28, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-0670022632 Review copy provided by the publisher, thank you! The Burton Review Rating: Four Stars A tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress....

Rivals in the Tudor Court (Tudor Court 2) by D.L. Bogdan Kensington Paperback April 26, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0758242006 Review copy provided by the author, thank you! The Burton Review Rating: 4 stars The death toll in Henry VIII's England can be counted in the thousands. No one was more aware of this than Thomas...

The following is an article written by author Laurel Corona, who has recently published her newest novel, Finding Emilie (4/12/2011), which I consumed in a weekend and loved. Emilie sounds like such a magnificent lady-- charming, scientific, exhibitionist, Voltaire's lover...    Finding Emilie,...

      Finding Emilie by Laurel Corona Paperback, Simon & Schuster, April 12, 2011 Review copy provided by the publisher, thank you! The Burton Book Review Rating: 5 stars Woman is born free, and everywhere she is in corsets. . . . Lili du Chatelet yearns to know more about her mother,...

Wickham's Diary by Amanda Grange Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (April 1, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-1402251863 Review copy provided by the publisher, thank you! The Burton Review Rating: 4 stars This prequel to Pride and Prejudice begins with George Wickham at age 12, handsome and charming but also...

What a great day it is today!! April 5 is my son's 4th birthday!! Happy Birthday to my little Oliver.. he was much wished for and I couldn't have asked for a little boy more perfect than my little guy. Oliver's big sister is pretty special too, and we are going to Chuck E Cheese.. the mother of all Kids Fun places, as...

To Be Queen by Christy English Paperback, 400 pages April 5th 2011; NAL Trade ISBN13 978-045123230 Review Copy provided by the author, thank you! The Burton Review Rating: 4.5 stars Christy English's second novel brings us her favorite protagonist of Eleanor of Aquitaine. English's previous work of last year, The...