November 1 ~ It‘s National Authors Day and I‘ve chosen a few of my favorites: clockwise from top left-Fiona Davis, Laird Hunt, L. M. Montgomery and William Kent Krueger.
Who are your favorites??
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For August's #2024ReadingBrackets NONFICTION I chose the tagged book by Timothy Egan. It‘s a grisly yet engrossing account of the Ku Klux Klan‘s rise to power in Indiana in the 1920s. The parallels to today are also scary and sobering. It was a fascinating read that also took down its challenger and moves to a semifinal slot. Honorable mention for a wild-card slot was “Beyond the High Blue Air” by Lu Spinney, a poignant, heartbreaking memoir.
pickA slice-of-life story about a woman's quiet, hard working lifetime, so lovely that it manages to be deeply sad yet not depressing.
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another book I wish I could get everyone in the US to read
pickGrisly yet fascinating account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. While it happened across the country, this focuses on Indiana, which had the highest concentration of KKK members and chapters of any state. (This statistic surprised me, although I‘m not really sure why.) In 1925, a brave young woman named Madge Oberholtzer gave a deathbed testimony that brought the group down. The parallels to today are also scary and sobering.
pickThis is an excellent book telling about the rise of the KKK in middle America. The author did a great job explaining how they rose and took over so many cities and towns. The violence and hatred of others can be extremely disturbing to read about. I gave this a 5/5
pickAssumed it was a COVID novel: nope, published in 2010!
A pandemic orphan, Cole is fostered by a fundamentalist pastor & his wife. They are good, kind people but their values and culture are poles apart from those of his liberal atheist parents. What's a boy to do when he loves them both?
The stuff about rapture children made me deeply uneasy.
Don't know why some of the plot points were introduced. Not sure how I feel about such a low key ending..
pickThis is the story of Madge Oberholtzer who finally brought down the Klan and its powerful Grand Dragon in Indiana. Unfortunately, she had to be viciously assaulted and die to do it. Kegan does a good job explaining the background, and his book is well-researched; it‘s just difficult to listen to because of how brutal her story is. I started Malice for my #audiowalk, read The Little Liar, and we started Dead Man‘s Hand for our new road trip book.
