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Great story to show children that anything is possible with hard work and imagination

“He turned trash into treasure, beauty, and hope.“

This book tells the inspiring story of artist Tyree Guyton, who transformed his Detroit neighborhood into an art installation using everyday items to create works of beauty and meaning.

Don't know of you are familiar with D.E. Johnson's early Detroit mysteries. They are pretty good & tell about the early auto industry. Did you know Electric cars were the first cars built in Detroit?

Love learning so much about early Detroit & southern Michigan reading D.E. Johnson.

3⭐️/5⭐️

Another deep dive into my TBR stacks resulted in me pulling out this ARC of a middle grade novel in verse about a young girl whose family leaves Detroit for the suburbs just as she‘s entering a poetry contest only for residents of Detroit. It‘s a more or less satisfying story about losing and making friends, secrets, poetry, prejudice, & community.

Sad events of a misguided youth in urban Detroit around 1960. Alex lives with his alcoholic dad who works 2nd shift at a car factory. I enjoyed the ups and downs of the book, cheering for Alex, hoping he would make it through his hardships to lead a good life. He is a complex character with a complicated history. The story takes place over the course of about a school year, but has many flashbacks giving the characters tangible depth.

I don‘t think I‘ve ever bailed on so many books as this month. This is another one that started out great (a woman looking for her two granddaughters who went missing after their mother was murdered). Unfortunately it turned into a mix of dystopia, fantasy, and magical realism 😵‍💫
It was an audioread and maybe my English isn‘t good enough but I completely lost track of the storyline and frankly, I didn‘t bother, I just wanted it to be over.

Thought provoking. I loved the story telling and seeing how the lives of the three protagonists intertwined despite being set decades apart. Definite pick