While this is not one of my favorite reads ever, it did teach me about a part of American history I had no idea about. There was a period of time when French nobles immigrated to Pennsylvania and were actually anticipating Marie Antoinette‘s arrival. I had no clue.
#mgfiction
#Waiting #MusicalNewYear
Alice Walker‘s #LaVieBoheme comes through in her memoir, The Chicken Chronicles.
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Albom and Angelou and Gibbons and Morrison
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These are a few of #MyFavoriteThings. Authors that is.
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Set in 1939 #NYC, World of #Tomorrow was bound to end up on my #tbr list. Yet at a daunting 560 pages, it hasn‘t made it to currently reading since it went on the tbr in 2017.
For those who read chunksters, how do you keep from being intimidated and what strategies do you use to make it through?
#MusicalNewYear
In The Hate U Give, we hear the same old #CopSong and Dance after the shooting of an African-American teenager.
Catching up on #MusicalNewYear
In The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, electroshock therapy sends 1985 Greta to another life in 1941 and to yet another during the influenza outbreak of 1918. While there, she discovers the parallel lives she and her loved ones are living in different eras and has to make a choice about which Greta she truly wants to remain.
#TimeWarp #MusicalNewYear
Jim Crow is one bird that shouldn‘t have been fed.
I had another book chosen for #MusicalNewYear #FeedtheBirds. But this just came up in my reading #blackhistory. It‘s a powerful illustration.
Bronx #Masquerade is the story of a class taking off their masks for a moment and allowing for vulnerability by sharing their struggles through their #poetry.
#MusicalNewYear
It‘s 1678 and most of the New World is still covered in forest. A mother takes one wrong turn and she and her young child are lost in the woods for quite some time. The beauty of untouched forest is overpowered only by the terror of being lost and utterly alone. #onmyown #MusicalNewYear
#RingofKeys immediately made me think of the main character of my #currentread, retired locksmith Leo Gursky. I adore him and this book.
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