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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. Richards
Something 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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Continue reading →: TV Time Out: “The 100”
I realized as I was trying to pep talk myself into being better at blogging in 2024 that the modus operandi of this blog has always been the idea of having ‘adventures with words’ and much like the way a graphic novel or an audiobook are absolutely equal to words…
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Continue reading →: Civil War fiction, from an enslaved woman’s perspective
Conjure Women ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Afia Atakora’s Conjure Women is the story of Miss May Belle and Miss Rue, mother and daughter healers a plantation in the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The story is largely told by Miss Rue in the present and remembering the past. Conjure Women is the…
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Continue reading →: A Year of Books in Favorite Quotations – 2024
A collection of one favorite quote from each of the books I’ve read this year… First book of the year – Conjure Women by Afia Atakora I had to laugh through my melancholy… Second book of the year – The Existence of Pity by Jeannie Zokan “Your mom and I…
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Continue reading →: Cleaning the slate, i.e. 2023 in review
I set a humble goal (via the ever trusty and gentle-pressuring Goodreads) of reading 48 books in 2023. As of today, December 29, 2023, Goodreads tells me I have read 59 books. And I’ve got 10% left in the one I’m reading now so I will hit 60 books this…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “This Is How We End Things” by R.J. Jacobs
Mysteries, thrillers, and I do not always get along. It seems like, at least for me, too often they give up their secrets too early or go overboard with the drama, especially after the Big Reveal. In my very humble opinion, it’s an awfully delicate balance. And harder still if…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “Chasing Chaos” by Jessica Alexander
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander (October 2013) I first read Chasing Chaos in 2013, when I received an ARC through the Goodreads Giveaways. And I recently found it again when trying to organize (and cull) my books. I didn’t remember a lot…
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Continue reading →: Reviewed: “Small Acts of Defiance” by Michelle Wright
If you’ve been around for the minute that this humble book/writing blog has been in existence, you’ll know that I have a weakness for historical fiction but that historical fiction set in or around World War II can be hit or miss because as a lover of history, I don’t…