Candra Boisclair

Candra’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (11)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (186)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
2025‎ (1)
2025-reading-list‎ (1)
2025-tbr‎ (1)
5-stars‎ (1)
adventure‎ (1)
all-time-favorites‎ (1)
animals‎ (1)
book-club‎ (1)

books-i-own‎ (1)
bookshelf‎ (1)
clean-reads‎ (1)
coming-of-age‎ (1)
contemporary‎ (1)
crime‎ (1)
dark‎ (1)
dogs‎ (1)
drama‎ (1)
emotional-reads‎ (1)
family‎ (1)
family-drama‎ (1)

faves‎ (1)
favorite‎ (1)
favorites‎ (1)
favs‎ (1)
fiction‎ (1)
first-person‎ (1)
found-family‎ (1)
girlhood‎ (1)
great-book‎ (1)
growing-up‎ (1)
healing‎ (1)
heartwarming‎ (1)

hope‎ (1)
horses‎ (1)
i-own‎ (1)
juvenile-fiction‎ (1)
kindle‎ (1)
life-lessons‎ (1)
middle-grade‎ (1)
must-read‎ (1)
my-books‎ (1)
my-library‎ (1)
mystery‎ (1)
mystery-thriller‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Candra’s Quotes

“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: betrayal, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, investigation, realistic, suspense, thriller

480 likes

“Confucius didn’t care much for women: When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

12 likes

“to believe there’s so many dogs that all look the same.’ Nancy smiled to herself. Red Dog was everybody’s dog now,”
― Louis de Bernières, Red Dog

5 likes

“On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of attention, slowly and tenderly.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

tags: captivating, facts, fiction, france, historical, king-edward, political-obstacles, power, researched, royalty

187 likes

“My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

tags: action, drama, exploration, fiction, future, literary-fiction, page-turner, politics, present

302 likes

More of Candra’s quotes…