Dewey has a great Weekly Geek question this week and as I fell behind on some of my reviews during my move and vacation I thought this was the perfect way to catch up on a couple of books. So here’s the deal:

• In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe you could try this with whatever book(s) you finish this week
• Ask your readers to ask you questions about any of the books they want. In your comments, not in their blogs. Most likely, people who will ask you questions will be people who have read one of the books or know something about it because they want to read it.
• Later, take whichever questions you like from your comments and use them in a post about each book. I’ll probably turn mine into a sort of interview-review. Link to each blogger next to that blogger’s question(s).
• Visit other Weekly Geeks and ask them some questions!

There were two books which I wanted to review but again, with everything that was going on at the time I just never got to them.

First, Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton.

“For Martha the start of a new academic year always brought a thrill of excitement: a sense, shared with the newcomers, of infinite possibilities – the ideals as yet uncompromised, the hopes as yet unqualified, the brand new stationery. But it also brought with it a pang of guilt, this year sharper than ever.”

I think a lot of you have already heard about this book via the wonderful reviews by Ann, Litlove, Stefanie… I know I’m missing more people right? Anyway, I really loved the style and the characters. To me they seemed like real people. Rosy Thornton has another book out, More Than Love Letters, which I hope to get to one of these days.

The other book is Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy.

“What hadn’t I figured out? Who Leo’s friend Calvin was. What to say the four times a day when he cries for Mommy. How to get Leo to take a bath. I’d tried air-lifting him to the tub before bed, luring him with Thomas engines, Oreos, grapes, and it all ended with Leo naked and shrieking, ‘No, thank you! No thank you!’ as he ran for the stairs.”

Here’s a novel about a guy adjusting to parenthood when he finds out he has a three-year-old son and he’s now his official keeper. Some funny and sweet moments made this one an enjoyable read. I know Les liked this one, who else?

Well, there you have it, those are two reviews I kept putting off. Want to know more or have any questions? Just let me know and I’ll answer in the comments.

Now if I can get my act together maybe tomorrow I’ll get to tell you about a couple of other books I’ve recently finished.

I didn’t get a chance to tell you yesterday about our time at BookPeople. We stopped in over the weekend for our regular date night and to catch up on the latest magazines and books. I think I’ve gushed quite a bit about how much I love BookPeople but I don’t know if I’ve told you about the one section that I really like — the historical fiction shelves.

Yep, they have several shelves devoted to historical fiction and I really like those. Well, I like a lot of their other sections but on this visit this is where I spent most of my time. I had a little journal, a pen and I started collecting titles that I want to check out one of these days.

Here are the books that I’ve added to that ever-growing list. If you’ve read one of these let me know your thoughts.

• The Disorder of Longing by Natasha Bauman. Victorian Boston and a quest for real love and orchids.
• Why She Married Him by Myriam Chapman. A tale of Tsarist Russia and the belle epoch Paris.
• The Spiritualist by Megan Chance. Mystery and the occult.
• Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness by Sheila Kohler. Fleeing the French Revolution.
• The Witches Trinity by Erika Mailman. Germany and a witch hunt.
• Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead. Madness and paranoia in London.
• A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock. Rocking the foundations of the monarchy.
• The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory. A novel of magic.
• The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein. Re-imagining the life of Pan Yuliang.
• The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson. The twilight of the Edwardian era.

Have you read a good historical recently? Let me know what else I should add to my list.