Holiday Fakeout is 99c! This anthology just dropped and features over 20 romances with fake dating during the holidays. Talk about catnip! If I did my math correctly with the listed page count, each story is 100 pages or slightly more.
RECOMMENDED: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly is $1.99! Carrie did a Lightning Review of it, and she gave it an A:
This is a gripping read that keeps its focus on the intelligence and perseverance of the women who helped win the war and who made space flight possible. Its only flaw is that it’s so admiring of the women in question that it never presents them as having any imperfections. Otherwise, this is an entertaining and fascinating look at American history and the overlooked women of color who were a crucial part of it.
RECOMMENDED: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly is $1.99 at Amazon! So far, there’s no price matching and I’m not really sure if this is a Kindle Daily Deal either. Carrie did a Lightning Review of it today, actually, and she gave it an A:
This is a gripping read that keeps its focus on the intelligence and perseverance of the women who helped win the war and who made space flight possible. Its only flaw is that it’s so admiring of the women in question that it never presents them as having any imperfections. Otherwise, this is an entertaining and fascinating look at American history and the overlooked women of color who were a crucial part of it.
We have our first crop of Lightning Reviews of 2017! Are you ready?! First up is Hidden Figures, the book on which the recent movie is based. We also some have historical fiction set in Ireland and a holiday Regency romance novella!
I got so excited about the kickass women movie Hidden Figures that I ran out and got the book of the same title, written by Margot Lee Shetterly. It tells the true stories of the African American women who worked as “human computers” (mathematicians) for Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. These women worked during WWII and the post-War days of aircraft development and then for NASA during the early days of the American space program. By … Continue reading Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
