This week is all about birthdays! While it's not quite my birthday, it is in the next few days and I am reading some great books to celebrate! We are reading about a birthday vacation that changes everything, a presidential biography, and a phenomenal book by one of my favorite authors! What are you reading … Continue reading This Week: July 20th
The Osage tribe has had more than their fair share of difficulties in the past 200 years. In 1810, the Osage were moved from their ancestral land to a reservation in Oklahoma. However, they relocated again when settlers began to encroach on their lands, this time buying their new land in allotments. This move made … Continue reading Killers of the Flower Moon
Dorus and Anna are proud parents of seven children, although their first was stillborn. Dorus, a minister, and Anna raised their children to put family first and educated them at home. It wasn’t until the children were grown that they took on the family business in dealing artwork. The two eldest surviving Van Gogh brothers … Continue reading Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
For much of our country’s history, Benedict Arnold has been a name synonymous with the word traitor. It’s easy to think of him as this criminal who chose the wrong side of the American Revolution, but there’s so much more to this man. A remarried widower with several children, he was driven by a need … Continue reading Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
BOOK REVIEW - 4 Stars - Dark Angel by John Sandford
Thank you NetGalley and Astra Publishing House for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Eurovision fans worldwide know the man on the video with the curly hair and the insight on every contestant. William Lee Adams, the Vietnamese-American journalist with the Southern twang in his voice, has been reporting on … Continue reading Wild Dances
The lawyer, founding father, war hero, and politician that is central to one of Broadway’s biggest hits of the past decade is so much more than what you probably know about him. Alexander Hamilton’s story is a true underdog tale. An illegitimate son born in the West Indies. An absentee father and a mother who … Continue reading Alexander Hamilton
It’s 1960 and the crossroads between a $25 traffic ticket, a Civil Rights sit in, and a presidential election. One arrest will bring the famed Kennedy’s of Camelot together with one of the most well-known ministers in the South in a dramatic way. Set in the city of Atlanta, we are introduced to a list … Continue reading Nine Days
BOOK REVIEW - 3 Stars - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
BOOK REVIEW - 4 Stars - Winter Read by Kitty Johnson
