Tag: favorites
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Seven Days in June with Eva and Shane
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams – A Five-Star Book Review “I wish you the most brilliant, weird, and wonderful things, every day of the world.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June (pg. 113) This might be one of my all-time favorite book quotations now, and it encapsulates everything I feel about Seven Days…
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You Have Entered Beartown
Beartown by Fredrik Backman – A Five-Star Book Review Beartown is a mainstay in book club conversations and on Bookstagram, with so many reviews raving about the power of this book by Swedish author Fredrik Backman. It took me until 2023 to understand why. I had trepidations about reading this book when I first heard…
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Five Stars for Someday, Maybe
Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli – A Five-Star Book Review What would you do if you lost the person closest to you? And how would your response be if that person chose to leave by suicide? That’s what Eve, the protagonist of Someday, Maybe, must experience when she finds her husband, Quentin, in a pool…
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All the Stars for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinA Five-Star Book Review Do you enjoy video games? I played Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt when I was a kid (yes, I’m that old), but I’ve never gotten into console games. Well, I did have a couple periods of life in which I was obsessed…
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Take My Hand for a 5-Star Read
Sometimes an author gives the amazing gift of a beautiful read that is page-turning and educational. Dolen Perkins-Valdez did exactly that with her 2022 book, Take My Hand. The Tuskegee syphillis experiments are a horrific, tragic part of US history. It’s still unimaginable to think of what doctors did to Black men in Alabama for…
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