Elizabeth Peterson, Author at Minding My Peas

BOOK REVIEW: The Sandcastle Girls

October 24, 2015 Reading Life No Comments

Review of: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she is there with one purpose–to use her newly acquired nursing degrees to aid the relief of the Armenian refugees trickling through Syria in the first breakers of the Great War. She…

BOOK REVIEW: Longbourn by Jo Baker

October 12, 2015 Reading Life No Comments

Review of: Longbourn by Jo Baker Genre: Literary, Historical Fiction Most of us are familiar with the trials and tribulations of the Bennet sisters, from Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice classic, but what about those ghosts belowstairs? Longbourn is a clever, irresistible imagining of the lives of the Bennet…

BOOK REVIEW: Thompson Road by Scott Wyatt

September 23, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

Review of: Thompson Road by Scott Wyatt Genre: Historical This book was sent to me for review by the author, but all opinions expressed are my own. Check out his website at www.scottwyattauthor.com Thompson Road is an illustration of growing up, and how life sometimes changes even your wildest dreams…

Kids Book Review: Henry The Turtle by C. K. Sobey

September 18, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments

Review of: Henry the Turtle by C. K. Sobey Genre: Children’s I was sent this book for review by the author, but all opinions expressed are my own. Check out her website for more information, here. Henry the Turtle is abandoned as an egg on a stretch of sandy beach…

Kids Book Review: Outside Inside by Cindy Helms

September 17, 2015 Kids Book Reviews Reading Life No Comments

Review of: Outside Inside by Cindy Helms Genre: Children’s Outside Inside is the story of a bird who goes looking for his friends one morning. When he can’t find them, he wonders where on earth they could be, and what they might be doing without him. Opposites and colorful illustrations…

BOOK REVIEW: Mexican Mutts and Tequila Pups by David Gordon Burke

September 9, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

Review of: Mexican Mutts and Tequila Pups by David Gordon Burke Genre: Nonfiction, Humor Mexican Mutts and Tequila Pups is a generally humorous collection of short stories and actual news articles about dogs in Mexico. It is a pretty quick read–I finished it in a couple quick afternoons of reading.…

BOOK REVIEW: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

September 4, 2015 Reading Life 2 Comments

Review of: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Genre: Literary Fiction A. J. Fikry is the passionate, generally irritable owner of the only book store on Alice Island. He has good reason to be irritable. His wife has died, the bookstore is barely making enough money to…

Moving

September 3, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

Hi y’all! I’m popping in to let you know that I am currently in the process of moving from Washington to Kentucky with my family! I plan to continue posting book reviews throughout the next several weeks of (first) driving and (second) settling into a new routine, but I’m sensing…

BOOK REVIEW: Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen

August 31, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

Review of: Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen Genre: Nonfiction, Historical In the aftermath of World War Two, the Allied powers struggled to decide what to do with the scientists and doctors behind some of the Third Reich’s most powerful war…

BOOK REVIEW: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

August 28, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

Review of: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments Series #2) Genre: YA, Fantasy City of Ashes is the second book in Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series. You can read my review of the first book, City of Bones, here. Since the disappearance of her mother, and her own…