Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW The Officer's Wife is a historical fiction novel by the author Catherine Law that takes readers through a heartbreaking story and battle between the love, loneliness, forgiveness, grief, scandal, and survival of an American heiress Vivienne Miles and Nathan a Naval Officer. Vivienne was thrilled to travel from New York to London to her own Mansion on Grosvenor Street. A new chapter in her life began as she began to establish herself at her childhood mansion on Grosvenor Street. She had come to London to see her friend, Genna, not to find her a husband, moreover, she was bored with New York. She had not expected to fall in love. But her parents and Nathan's arranged their marriage to each other so quickly all had happened.  Nathan was a fully-fledged naval officer and a lieutenant, who worked away from London at the war. Vivi was a bride, and a naval wife fighting to survive alone in wartime. Vivi as a naval wife wandered and spend each day alone agai...

  My Thoughts and Book Review Some key Scripture takeaways to memorize from this book : All scripture is inspired by God: All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. (2 Timothy 3:15-16) Scriptures come from the breath of God. Second, the Bible is authoritative. The writer of Hebrews penned these powerful words about Scripture: " The word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. (Hebrews 4:12)  Thom S Rainer has highlighted why the bible is necessary, (Romans 10:14-15) ( Acts 8:31) (2 Timothy 3:14-15) (1 John 5:1-3) The author has clearly highlighted God's attributes, Jesus is fully man and fully God, and the critical importance of the Trinity in an understandable manner so any level of Ch...

                                                    MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW                    This is an adorable regency clean romance novel by Meghan Walker. Miss Rosalind Newbury was brilliant and beautiful when she was engaged to the Duke of Marlow arranged by her parents. Rosalind was making this decision to get married because her family bordered prime farmland that they owned which was one of the Duke's estates. The Duke wanted the land and Rosalind's family desired his title to bolster the family name. Rosalind was wild, free, and full of adventure, and Alice her aunt wanted her to live her life fully first. Rosalind's Aunt encouraged her to create a list of 10 things that she wanted to experience before her wedding. One of the items on her list was to learn how to swim. Lisa her best friend is th...

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Michael Witt in his novel narrates I AM GERMANY to conjure his readers to deeply explore the historical events before World War 2 had started. An elderly man, half-Jew, and a widower, Heinrich Schultheiss returns to Germany after fifty years of living in America in 1936 with his parents. He had left Nazi Germany for Iowa shortly before the war at the age of sixteen. He comes back to the day the berlin wall fell and allowed him to travel freely between two Germany, West, and East Berlin without a special visa. As traveling in unified Germany he recollects that his childhood memories which are personal and a good part of his boyhood had been wiped off when Allied  bombs pounded the monster out of Berlin in 1944 and 1945. There it was - except the Brandenburg Gate with the Greek Goddess of military victory - Victoria Gate. Every building, old store, and the house of chocolate vanished into thin air. He was horrified to see his childhood home Ede...

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW The author, Marlie Parker Wasserman has feasted the readers with real-life characters and fictional ones from the time period 1903-1906. Maurice C Latta's narrative is very interesting where an assassination attempt is suspected to kill President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy." The author takes the reader through all the events that occur when on Nov 6, 1906, President Roosevelt sets on a trip to Panama to inspect the canal's construction. He is the first president to tour outside the continental United States officially and diplomatically. The ship, USS Louisiana set for the voyage to Panama along with First lady Edith Roosevelt, two journalists, three service agents who guarded the presidents, and more officials. There were men who threatened to kill the president three years earlier.  For the three-day visit by President Theodore, the ship Louisiana arrived a day early at the colon. The effort initiated by the French to build the Panama Ca...