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“God has great plans for you. But He cannot give you greater than what you desire for yourself.”

This is the story of Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961), who basically kicked off the glorious Harlem Renaissance and helped such writers as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen and more. She was also a magazine editor, a published novelist, and lover of W.E.B. DuBois of the NAACP.

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And yet life remained interesting.

A fictionalized version of Princess Diana from the perspective of a long-lost school chum, this turned out to be more of a hagiography than something trying to create a full person, which was disappointing. Full review at: https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-princess-by-wendy-holden.html?m=1

Starting another #BookSpinBingo read

In truth, I've never been wild about the Brontës but, written from Emily's point of view, I really enjoyed this. It's given me a greater respect for them and their work (I hadn't realised just how precarious their living situation was). The nature descriptions are wonderful and I liked the various relationships between the siblings (and have conflicted feelings about Branwell).

I started really liking this but at 25% it seems like the story is going in circles…

Current audioboook…Liking the narration on this!