Tag: five-star reads
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The Power of the Girls
Five-Star Book Review: The Power by Naomi Alderman Do you ever pick up a book from your to-be-read stack and think, why did it take me so long to read this? Well, that was certainly the case for me when I read The Power by Naomi Alderman this week. This book caught my eye years…
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The Important Story of the Yellow Wife
Five-Star Read: Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson I recently wrote about five reasons I love reading historical fiction, and Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson is an excellent example of why I love this genre. About Yellow Wife Yellow Wife is the story of Pheby Delores Brown, born on Bell Plantation in Virginia. She was favored…
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Quick Reviews from My Shelves
As part of my challenge to clear my shelves this year, I’m reading to many of my backlist books–those that have been sitting on my shelves for years with the promise of being read someday. February 2023 was a big month of checking off to-be-read books from my shelves, particularly for books that are recognized…
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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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