February #wrapup
Life has been full of distractions and I‘m finding it hard to focus on my reading. I was lucky to finish these books last month, mostly for book clubs and buddy reads. I enjoyed all of them.
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February #wrapup
Life has been full of distractions and I‘m finding it hard to focus on my reading. I was lucky to finish these books last month, mostly for book clubs and buddy reads. I enjoyed all of them.
pickAn historical fiction inspired by the blue-skinned people of Kentucky, coal-mining and the Pack Horse Library Service. Cussy Mary is a kind and intelligent person who happens to have blue skin. For this, she suffers as a social outcast. She creates a life for herself by bringing books to the Appalachian people and is also known as the Book Woman. A story of resiliency and tenacity in the face of unrelenting discrimination.
Finished this one today!! #punnytitle for #ispy #hotdrink for the #scavengerhunt part of a #series for #bookrecommendation #family for #gottacatchemall and #mistakenidentity for #itsatrope #hauntedshelf #flerken @PuddleJumper
pickHighly recommend if you enjoy historical fiction. It follows the case of a pack horse librarian and “blue” Kentucky woman in rural Kentucky In the 1930s. Proves the powerful was of books 📚 🖤
pickI originally read the sequel first because the library didn‘t have this one. Interesting story of the Kentucky Packhorse Librarians during a time of starvation, miscegenation laws, misogyny and all manner of inequality and inequity at every turn. The Blue Fugates were real people suffering from a blood disorder called ‘methemoglobinemia‘. While the disorder wasn‘t healthy, the greater danger was in ignorance and racism as a reaction to it.
My day didn‘t go entirely as planned. Instead of chilling at home while the washer and dryer did their thing, I sweated at the laundromat and schlepped my clothes in and out of the car.
I figured I deserved to take myself out to dinner. There‘s been an eclectic mix of music playing at the restaurant, including Sam Hunt saying he wants to introduce me to his Kindle.
Alas, not his Kindle but his kinfolk.
#misheardlyrics
My first bell hooks but definitely not my last! This one was so fantastic! A slice of life in rural Appalachia.
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I read this in the past month and I have to say I loved it!
bell hooks is a new-to-me author and one I want to pick up more of. This haunting collection made me homesick for a place I've never been.
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