Two days. 35 square blocks of businesses and homes destroyed. At least 39, possibly as many as 300, killed. 10,000 left homeless. Death in a Promised Land is Scott Ellsworth’s exhaustive look into the events leading up to, during, and after the violence over Memorial Day weekend in 1921. Later named the Tulsa Race Massacre or … Continue reading Death in a Promised Land
When I think of Fall, I think of high school Friday night football games, fall festivals, apple picking, hayrides, and curling up with a warm blanket and a cup of coffee watching the sun come up every weekend. It's about cozy vibes and warmth and the calm before the busy holiday season starts. This is … Continue reading September Theme: Fall
Ella May Wiggins is a young mother who was promised the world but really only wants enough money to put food on the table. She worked at American Mill No. 2 until a few weeks ago when she was recruited to help organize strikes and recruit for the National Textile Workers Union by using her … Continue reading The Last Ballad
Hoping you are enjoying a beautiful 3-day holiday weekend right now with lots of time to read. I'm reading through several non-fiction books this weekend for our weekly prompts. In honor of Labor Day, our reading prompt this week is "labor rights". I've read several great books about the labor rights struggles of the late … Continue reading This Week: September 1st
Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard have explored history together over 12 best-selling books in their “Killing” series, including the lives of several American presidents. Now they are taking a look at each president from Washington to Obama. … Continue reading Confronting the Presidents
Sophie has a quiet life filming wedding videos, but it hasn’t always been that way. She’s from a family of grifters and conmen, including her two siblings. But Sophie would do anything for family, so when her sister lands a job producing a movie in Temptation, Ohio, Sophie gets roped into helping out. Little did … Continue reading Welcome to Temptation
Our theme for August was "Back to School" - how did you do with the prompts? Looking back on the books we read, I had three 5 star books, all of which were advanced copies of upcoming releases! There are some great books hitting shelves right now! This month, I reviewed 14 books - 9 … Continue reading August Recap & September Prompts
This has been a tough year on January. After her father died, she found out he wasn’t exactly who he pretended to be. Then things took a bad turn with her literary work. Now she’s got just a few weeks to turn in her newest book she can’t even seem to get started on. Maybe … Continue reading Beach Read
This week we are talking about some of our favorite female authors. A while back, I had written about how women often had to take on male monikers in order for their writing to be published. It's still the case in some areas, but the literary world today is much different than in Jane Austen's … Continue reading This Week: August 25th
If you’re like me, and a little late to the Leslie Jordan party, you may know this comedian as Phil on “Call Me Kat” or maybe the various roles he played in the “American Horror Story” franchise. Maybe you found Leslie on Instagram during the pandemic. Or maybe his gospel album caught your attention. Whatever … Continue reading How Y’all Doing?
