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Books read in March! The Bryson, Altamont, and Homegoing were the best. I loved having a #BFIBC discussion with my BBF (best book friend) @monkiesdofly about Homegoing, and glad to be on pace for #tbr2018rbr. More thoughts linked in bio 📚 #marchreads #recap #marchbooks

Best Friends International Book Club!! We read Homegoing—beautiful, heartbreaking, MUST-read epic family saga spanning 250yrs between Ghana and USA. One of the most affecting and thought-provoking pieces of historical fiction I‘ve read in a long time. #tbr2018rbr

http://mylittleheartmelodies.com/2018/03/29/book-club-homegoing/

It wasn‘t what I was expecting, but I liked it. I expected supernatural (like, the actual literal devil) but it was more parable and magical realism. Set in 1984, with issues relevant to today, like racism and homophobia. I listened on audio, and Mark Bramhall is fantastic, but the dialect/accents are rendered as deep Alabamian or Georgian instead of Ohio, where it takes place—that distracted me. Good contemporary gothic 👍 #tbr2018rbr

Eye-opening, meticulously researched. Mayer exposes depth to which radical libertarian billionaires, lead by the Koch Brothers, have infiltrated the US government, specifically Republicans, at all levels. The sections about their war against taking action to stabilize climate change & how they‘re trying to indoctrinate Americans to their philosophies by influencing course content in our educational system were especially infuriating. #tbr2018rbr