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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “The Wives: A Memoir” by Simone Gorrindo
Reviewing a memoir is never easy because it feels like passing judgment on how someone else lived their life. Simone Gorrindo’s memoir is the story of her life as an Army wife, and in a sense the lives of Army wives more generally speaking. I’m not a military wife and…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery” by Earl Swift
Sometimes it’s necessary to read and understand things that make a person uncomfortable. At the risk of sounding pretentious, those are teachable moments. And Earl Swift delivers a profoundly important one with his telling of the so-called ‘Murder Farm Massacre’ in Jasper County, Georgia in 1921. It isn’t easy to…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “The Other Man” by Farhad J. Dadyburjor
Farhad J. Dadyburjor’s The Other Man is a story that delivers the message that it is never too late to claim the identity you want your life to have. It may be absolutely terrifying to face family, friends, and society at large and announce who you want to be and…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “The Divorcées” by Rowan BeairdBeing a lover of historical fiction novels has its pros and cons. A pro is that there are countless different types of historical fiction, though admittedly a lot of them are war-focused, and you’re never at a loss for options. A con is that it’s awfully easy to get stuck…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “Granite Harbor” by Peter Nichols
There are a few keys to a good murder mystery thriller: Granite Harbor gets three of those things almost absolutely right and although the fourth one drags a little, it’s carried by the others for what turns out to be an easily readable murder mystery thriller. The story of murder…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “After Annie” by Anna QuindlenAnna Quindlen’s novel After Annie doesn’t come out until March 2024 but the hype for it is already building… it should be noted that I’m writing this review in November 2023 because I got hooked by the hype and had received an advance copy of Quindlen’s latest novel so I…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “Across a Broken Shore” by Amy Trueblood
As you’ll see at the end of this review of Amy Trueblood’s Across a Broken Shore, there are things in this story that some people might find hard to read for pleasure. None of it, however, is gratuitous. And so the things that might make a reader uncomfortable; i.e. religious…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “The Missing Letters of Mrs. Bright” by Beth Miller
You know how you can buy a book because of the cover, knowing absolutely nothing about it? Well, I wanted to read The Missing Letters of Mrs. Bright because my fifth grade teacher was Mrs. Bright and she was the best teacher I had in school. That’s it. The human…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “Total Olympics: Every Obscure, Hilarious, Dramatic, and Inspiring Tale Worth Knowing” by Jeremy Fuchs
The year was 1992. I was in fourth grade and my teacher was obsessed with the Olympics. She, in one of the craftiest and most pleasing self-care style lesson plans I’ve ever been taught, used the Albertville Winter Olympics as a way to teach us about the world. And that’s…
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Continue reading →: 5 star reads: “We Are Only Ghosts” by Jeffrey L. RichardsSomething about Jeffrey L. Richards’ We Are Only Ghosts hooked me fast and it’s going to stay with me for a very long time. I might think it was the cover, because of the concentration camp tattoo on the waiter’s forearm, but it probably wasn’t that. I think that probably…
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