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Glory Over Everything
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House | Kathleen Grissom
The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the books characters that the author, Kathleen Grissom, found herself being asked over and over what happens next? The wait is finally over. This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only to discover that his aristocratic lover Caroline is pregnant. Before he can reveal his real identity to her, he learns that his beloved servant Pan has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Pans father, to whom Jamie owes a great debt, pleads for Jamies help, and Jamie agrees, knowing the journey will take him perilously close to Tall Oakes and the ruthless slave hunter who is still searching for him. Meanwhile, Carolines father learns and exposes Jamies secret, and Jamie loses his home, his business, and finally Caroline. Heartbroken and with nothing to lose, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation where Pan is being held with a former Tall Oakes slave named Sukey, who is intent on getting Pan to the Underground Railroad. Soon the three of them are running through the Great Dismal Swamp, the notoriously deadly hiding place for escaped slaves. Though they have help from those in the Underground Railroad, not all of them will make it out alive.
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BkClubCare
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Esther is distressed and I am keeping my eye on her tonight. She is aging fast- she‘ll be 14 in July. Listening to the audiobook tagged for book club. Not my favorite narration so far. #dogsoflistsy #audiobook

dabbe Oh, sweet Esther! Feel better, darlin'! 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
Velvetfur Aaww poor Esther 🩷 I'm sure she'll be less distressed with her Mum looking after her 🩷 6mo
Darklunarose Poor ester. I hope she will be ok. 6mo
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BkClubCare @dabbe - thank you 🥰 She seems better this morning. 🐶 ❤️ 6mo
BkClubCare @Velvetfur - you‘d think! She has been irritable lately. 🤗 6mo
BkClubCare @Darklunarose - hope is what we need! Thank you ☺️ 🐶 (why isn‘t there an emoji for HOPE? 😇?) 6mo
dabbe @BkClubCare 🤩🐾🤩 6mo
Darklunarose @BkClubCare sometimes that is what we must keep tight hold of. And our pets are fur babies. They mean so much to us. 6mo
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#SPRINGSKIES
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Prompt: GLORY IN TITLE

From James Pyke to James Burton.

From the South to the North.

From a plantation to a home in Philadelphia.

James Pyke fled from the plantation to start a new life after he killed his abusive father.

A sequel to THE KITCHEN HOUSE.

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Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 📚 🧡 7mo
SilversReviews @Eggs Thanks. 7mo
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Kshakal
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SilversReviews This is the book I also chose for my prompt. 😊 (edited) 7mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 7mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 7mo
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Yoricke_SouthAfrica
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This book is a follow on from The Kitchen House, but can also be read as a stand alone book. I enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed The Kitchen House. Both books give great insight into the plantation era, specially focused on the slave trade. Heartbreaking, thought provoking and very well written!

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Yoricke_SouthAfrica
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This book is a follow-on from The Kitchen House that I really enjoyed. Looking forward to reading and learning more about this time in history.

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Judybskt
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Finished this up while enjoying some fresh air. Definitely a pick. Took a lot it to get into it though.

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Judybskt
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Pool and a new book!

ju.ca.no Enjoy🥰 2y
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MelKelsey
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Book 144 Well-written, engaging, and with rich characters, Glory Over Everything is a very recommendable read by Grissom. This novel elucidates atrocious slavery practices of separating families and barring parents from caring for their own children. The overarching theme is hopeful, about family. This book, in comparison with The Kitchen House, contains no magical elements and is not purported to have been received as a vision.

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Allylu
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This is the sequel to The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom. I did another marathon (for me) reading session to finish it. It focuses on Jamie, Belle‘s son, after he leaves Tall Oaks. He can pass for white and does although he is always looking over his shoulder for his pursuers. He encounters people that help him, so he tries to help others even putting himself in danger. This is #12 on my #BookSpinBingo BINGO!! Yay!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Awesome progress!! 4y
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nichollinlove
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7 months ago, I read The Kitchen House and had love/hate conflicting issues with it. I hesitated to read this book but my SIL easily convinced me to give it a try.

I recognized characters and how they fit into the first book, and I liked that aspect. I really liked this book in general. Jamie had an interesting story and presented a different POV of that time frame. If you've read kitchen house and didn't love it, you'll like this one more.

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Djspens
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Glory Over Everything is the sequel to The Kitchen House. It‘s just as good as the first book. This book follows Jamie Pyke as he escapes his southern plantation life and lives his life as a white man, though his mother is mulatto and he wants to keep this secret hidden. He heads south to the slave states to rescue the sold son of a close friend. They navigate the Underground Railroad trying to head back north. Such an interesting & sad story.

Aswenson I loved The Kitchen House and have had the sequel sitting in my shelf for a while! 5y
Djspens @Aswenson read it! I wish I‘d read it right after The Kitchen House! 5y
Aswenson I‘ll bump it up in my TBR pile. 👍🏻 5y
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Djspens
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1. Started tagged book this morning, such a good book. Would love to stay home tonight and finish....
2. Nope, I like seeing my read books on my shelves!
3. A 10 year old shi-poo named Shiloh. She‘s in a lot of my book pics 😃 she‘s my daughter‘s dog but somehow still lives with me.... #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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Djspens
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Snuggling in on a Friday night to start the sequel to The Kitchen House, which was a great book!

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AmyK1
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Overall I liked this. The writing was fantastic and the story was really good. But Jamie/James was pretty unlikable until the last 10-15 pages when he started making good choices. And that was only because things got easier for him. For most of the book he was arrogant, selfish and racist. Loved Pan, Sukey and Robert though.

#doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks So hard when a main character is unlikable!!! 5y
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AmyK1
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Reading my #doublespin book while waiting at the dentist office.

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Djspens
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Received 2 books in the mail today and a surprise gift from my sister. She thought it would be a nice addition to my Gramma‘s Library 😃

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LeafingThroughLife
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Eggs Lovely stack🌈 5y
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LeafingThroughLife
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A little bit of a wider angle of my “book fort” which in actuality is my plunder from the first friends of the library book sale of the year. I always make out great at this one, and this year is no different. Sure, I‘ll need a few lifetimes to read the books I already have on my shelves, but why should that stop me from getting more? 🤣

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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This historical fiction was extremely readable. The writing kept me interested and moving in the book. It was a story about race and family in the us before the civil war.

Kaye Is this a part two of another book ? Wondering if you have to read them in order. 6y
BookaholicNatty @kaye the first book is called The Kitchen House and I would definitely recommend reading that one first! It‘s a wonderful wonderful book! 6y
Kaye I‘ve heard if that but haven‘t read anything by this author. I‘ll have to check her out sometime ! 6y
Crazeedi @kaye I read this one, very good. Haven't read the tagged one yet, I hear good things 6y
Kaye Once I get in the mood for historical fiction I‘ll keep them in mind. I read where the winds blow I guess. 😁📚 (edited) 6y
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melissajayne
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Reading this as my pre-#readathon book. Hadn‘t read anything for a few days so I needed to do some reading today to get myself going for tomorrow. #fridayreads

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cinann
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My book haul from the Half-Price Books warehouse sale today. To me they are all #prettybooks.

#31bookpics @howjessreads

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Nute
Mehso-so

The first book in this duology, The Kitchen House, was so good. This book felt very different from the first...the story slogged along trying to give interest to the main character who was of all things uninteresting and lukewarm. I had no heart for his romance, no care for his well-being and no concern for his loss of character. He was weak when strength was needed. He was flighty when courage was mandated. That's okay...who might not be less👇🏽

Nute than what is required in the confrontation of brutally violent times. But his reality should have given him depth of character and it did not. By the time he recovered himself, he was unlikeable. It was the secondary characters that carried the intrigue of this book. Robert, Pan, Sukey and Adelaide...once the book spent more time with them it becomes a more compelling read.👇🏽 (edited) 6y
Nute In the last one-third of the book, the author delivers her storytelling talents, the attention to the time period and historical detail is well-researched and noted. This sequel will appeal to the readers of the first book, and endear new readers to this author. 6y
Tamra I listened to the first and enjoyed it. I‘m also skeptical of sequels, so I‘ve hesitated. Thanks for reviewing! 6y
Nute @Tamra There was a lot of time between the publication of these two books so much so that at first I thought it was just her second novel. I was surprised to discover that is was a sequel after all it had been six years sine The Kitchen House. Also it is probably dreadful to try to outdo a very successful first novel. That‘s why, we, as readers, gotta stand by authors like best friends. 6y
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Nute
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Up late at night after being tired all day long. Mind boggling. Feeling like a night owl, but not willingly or effectively. Trying to reconnect to this story, but something is amiss...it feels like swimming through mud. I‘m not sure if it‘s the book or me. I can definitely say that it is not as engaging as her first novel. It doesn‘t feel as if it was an intended sequel.👇🏽

Nute More like, this setting and these folks worked the first time around so I‘ll go there again. Anyway...I‘m sticking it out because I think that I know one particular thing that is going to happen and that is enough to pull me through until the end. 6y
megnews I definitely agree the sequel was nowhere near as amazing as Kitchen House. 6y
MaGoose Love the bookmark. 6y
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Briget66 What a beautiful picture!! 6y
Nute @megnews Yes, we‘re on the same page. However, the last quarter of the book did remind me of how this author can hold you captive as she did with Kitchen House. 6y
Nute @MaGoose I have a thing for owls.🦉 6y
Nute @Briget66 Thank you! 6y
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Thousand-Lives
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My impulse buys from the library bookstore. I don‘t even have shelf space for my books right now and end up piling them in random places. 😬

Texreader Me too... 6y
TheBookKeepers Glory over everything 😍. I just read the Kitchen House & was very excited to see there was a sequel follow up! Hope you enjoy! 6y
Thousand-Lives @Ashley85 Good to know! It‘s been on my TBR for a looong time! 6y
Thousand-Lives @TheBookKeepers Thank you! I read The Kitchen House last summer and have been meaning to read Glory Over Everything ever since then. Couldn‘t pass it up! ☺️ 6y
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Blueberry
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#agameoffavorites
Day 1: I like both of Kathleen Grissom's novels equally. Glory Over Everything is a sequel to The Kitchen House. I can't find the author's favorite book but some authors who have inspired her include Susan Howatch, Beryl Markham, Joan Didion, and Alice Walker.

@ErinSueG @WhiskeyMistress

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego I really like The Kutchen House. Didn't realize there was a sequal. 6y
HKGirl Check out her interview on the podcast What Should I Read Next! She listed Gap Creek by Robert Morgan, West with the Night by Beryl Markham, and Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller as the 3 books she loves. (Though of course there's always more.) 6y
Blueberry @HKGirl OMG, I forgot about that. You have quite the memory! 6y
Erinsuereads Love that podcast @HKGirl ! @Blueberry I‘ve never heard of these or your author so great choice! 6y
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Nute
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I told you guys about my one & only reading friend outside of my book club acquaintances and social network connections. She is my co-worker who reads occasionally. I have established us as a two-member book club, because when the stars align perfectly, I buy two of the same book for us to read and discuss. This is the current selection...an author that I introduced her to several years ago & now we both enjoy. Can‘t wait to read this...TOGETHER!

CouronneDhiver 👏🏽👏🏽 6y
Thousand-Lives Enjoy! It‘s so nice to have reader friends! 6y
APLitlife Is this a sequel? 6y
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ShariEstaLeando
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Pickpick

Sequel, but it stands alone. Gripping!

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Jessbell7164
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I just needed to follow the people I fell in love with in the Kitchen House, so therefore when your library only has large print, you get the large print. Hello old friends.

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Blueberry
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have Glory on my shelf!!! 7y
Blueberry @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It's really good. 7y
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Blueberry
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4.5 stars of 5. This sequel to The Kitchen House had me not wanting to stop reading. Somethings were a little too obviously coincidental but it didn't effect my enjoyment of this book.

LauraBeth I loved this book so much! 7y
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josie281
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To help with #MtTBR I check out audiobooks from the library of ones I am physically reading at home so I can listen at work. This has a cast audio but all narrators this far are very good. Santino Fontana is the main voice so far (Prince Hans from Frozen).
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Side note: googly eyes make me happy and my document clip looks happy too, don‘t you think? 👀

Maike My head just short circuited a little. 😂 I loved his voice in the You and Hidden Bodies audio books so it is really hilarious to learn that he was in Frozen. 7y
vkois88 This knowledge makes me want to listen to those books rather than read them lol 7y
SaturnDoo I ❤ this book😁 7y
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Happiestwhenreading
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I‘ll read anything by Kathleen Grissom! She‘s a master storyteller who gets her readers to emotionally connect with every character. GOE was just as good as her first book, The Kitchen House. The only thing bad about this book is that it had to end...

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Lea
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This is a great follow up to The Kitchen House. It was interesting, distressing and hopeful. I found the characters engaging and I was invested in their story.

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LitHousewife
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I loved The Kitchen House. I cannot explain why it took me so long to get my hands on this book. I'm looking forward to reading it, but I might need a little break from this subject matter after reading The Underground Railroad.

Josiedlove Awesome book 8y
LitHousewife @Josiedlove I got to meet the author on her first tour. She's a wonderful person. What has been my problem??? 8y
Pelican71 I loved it too @LitHousewife I'm going to buy the paperback to match my copy of The Kitchen House, which I loved as well and have read multiple times. 🤓 8y
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auntie_jenn both you and @laurabeth have posted this nearly back to back in my feed 😯 8y
LauraBeth So good! That's a sign @auntie_jenn 😀 8y
auntie_jenn @laurabeth looking up Kitchen House now... 8y
LitHousewife @LauraBeth @auntie_jenn Add The Kitchen House as well if you haven't read that one. #enablers 8y
Bakingbookworm Both books are awesome!! She's a wonderful 🇨🇦author. I like that it's a continuation of The Kitchen House. 8y
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LauraBeth
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I'm going to mention how much I love this book one last time since it's now out in paperback 😀I'm sorry that this book got lost in the shuffle last year because it's amazing! Spend the $12 💕

saresmoore I'm sold! 8y
christineandbooks Read this and her first, both wonderful. Heard her speak at our library last summer; she was a delight to listen to. 8y
minkyb Agree! 8y
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LauraBeth You won't regret it @saresmoore 😀 8y
LauraBeth @christineandbooks I've heard that she is a wonderful speaker - would love to hear her 😀 8y
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Luv2readbookz
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My attempt at a #rainbowbookstack. #riotgrams But now that I look at it, I mixed up orange and yellow. 🌈

Reviewsbylola 😍🌈😍🌈 8y
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raelaschoenherr
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A follow-up to the excellent The Kitchen House. I'd heard it wasn't quite as good but I ended up thinking it was also really good! It takes a while to get going but it's worth it. And boy, talk about a character arc! Also, the #audiobook narrator for James's POV is the guy who does the voice of Hans in Frozen...fun fact ☺

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raelaschoenherr
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When you live in Minnesota and it's 58 degrees in February, you take your #audiobook outside for a run around the lake! #Minneapolis

MyNamesParadise Beautiful! 8y
raelaschoenherr @MyNamesParadise Thanks! It was a gorgeous day :) 8y
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Equinm
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. This was a follow up book to The Kitchen House (which I read long enough ago to *almost* remember most of the characters). The main character was hard to like and I found myself oft becoming annoyed with his lack of strength. That being said, the story was enjoyable for fans of historical fiction.

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Copwithabook
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mjdowens Thriftbooks.com is the best❤📚 8y
Reecaspieces Pope Joan is excellent!! 8y
Copwithabook @mjdowens I didn't know about thriftbooks.com until I joined Litsy! I can't wait t😊 have a list going and ask just for books for Christmas 8y
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mjdowens 👏👏👏👏 8y
Jinjer I LOVE POPE JOAN!!!! 8y
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Equinm
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After the last two duds, I'm hoping this book brings smiles rather than eye rolls. (Five chapters in and so far it's a very engaging story). Fingers crossed 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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tammysue
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Another amazing read from Kathleen Grissom. Glory Over Everything is the follow up novel to The Kitchen House, which as incredible as it sounds is the authors first novel. She's a phenomenal writer littens. Happy Friday *cheers*🍷#tgif #KathleenGrissom

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ChrisM
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I listened to this sequel to the Kitchen House & enjoyed it!! It made me want to keep driving & an audio book that does that is a winner!! It is the story of what happened to Jamie after he fled the plantation and as expected it is full of danger.

LauraBeth I ❤️ this book! 8y
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BritanyA
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Wow- loved this one so much more than the first one. How is that even possible. Loved the character development and so many new people- both that I loved and hated. Hoping for a third book from Addy's perspective- she was such a little spitfire and I loved her for it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

CarrieBeckort I loved Addy too! 8y
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LauraBeth I can't be certain, but I think this line was also in The Royal We 🙀 8y
BritanyA @LauraBeth oh really??? How interesting... 🙈 8y
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Kirstyb
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I loved the Kitchen House, and was delighted to see this in the library shelf. Totally compelling story, with characters from The Kitchen House. The main characters were interesting, and human in their weaknesses. Set in Philadelphia, as well as the south, the local interest elements appealed to me.

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LauraBeth
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This has been one of my favorites so far this year. I loved the writing, the characters and the story. I felt like I was living inside the book while reading it. It also made me think a lot about the differences between the circumstances in life that are forced upon us and the circumstances that we put ourselves in based on our own choices.

Roselyn_Reads So adorable 😻😽 8y
MrBook 😻👍🏻 8y
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moranadatter Gorgeous cat! 8y
Gezemice Love that cat abandon going on. 👍❤️ 8y
LauraBeth Thanks @MrBook, @kmdartist, @Gezemice - she's a hot mess 😺 8y
LauraBeth Thanks @RealLifeReading and @Silent_Whispers - her cute face gets her out of a lot of trouble! 8y
Bakingbookworm Loved this book and The Kitchen House. Did you read it first? I liked how GOE could be a stand alone but is also the follow up to Kitchen House. Grissom is one of my fav Canadian authors. 🇨🇦📚❤️ 8y
LauraBeth @Bakingbookworm I haven't read The Kitchen House yet. The same day I finished GOE, I drove to the bookstore and bought it though 😀 I need to bump it up in my pile of books 8y
Bakingbookworm @LauraBeth It is soooo good. I have read quite a few books from that era and that is one of my favs. Roots by Alex Haley and Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill are both excellent too (if you haven't read them yet). :) 8y
LauraBeth Thanks @Bakingbookworm! I'll check those out. I remember back in the 70s when Roots came out and my parents had the book but I haven't read it. 8y
Bakingbookworm @LauraBeth Roots is amazing. I tried to watch the miniseries after reading the book but I couldn't get through it. Book of Negroes (it goes by a different title in the US) is outstanding too (and so is its miniseries). 8y
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VolunteerVal
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"I bin through enough to know you can't carry nobody's hurt. Hard enough to carry your own."
This quote is very meaningful - a reminder I really needed to hear today.

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OakCliffGirl
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And vacation starts....... NOW!! So looking forward to spending the weekend with this book. (And of course my wine)

mllemay I'm next on the waiting list for it at my library - really looking forward to it! 8y
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