Week 2 of Nonfiction November is hosted by Frances at Volatile Rune. Check out her post today for links to all of the participating blogs. Given that I read most nonfiction for my book club that focuses on race in … Continue reading →
This week’s Nonfiction November linkup is hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story or maybe Liz at Adventures in reading, running and working from home. Like most years, the vast majority of the nonfiction books that I read … Continue reading →
Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week. I’ve been thinking of everyone in Florida, including some in the … Continue reading →
The annual meeting of the Community for Understanding and Hope book group was this week. We have read 150 books since 2008. These are the ten books that we’ll read in the coming year. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora … Continue reading →
Book: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner Genre: Memoir Publisher: Beacon Press Publication date: 2020 Page count: 218 Source: paperback purchased from local bookstore Summary: “One of the nearly forty-three thousand American children affected by … Continue reading →
Book: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb Genre: Novel Publisher: Anchor Publication date: 2022 Source: E-book borrowed from the library Summary: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb starts with an instrument case that is missing its violin, replaced with a white Converse Chuck tennis shoe and a … Continue reading →
Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan Genre: History Publisher: Viking (Penguin Random House) Publication date: 2023 Pages: 404 Source: Hardback from the … Continue reading →
This week the Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group held its annual book selection meeting. Our book group formed in 2008 as part of an effort to heal community following the tragic Kirkwood City Hall shooting. Our June meeting … Continue reading →
Book: Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang Genre: Autobiography Publisher: Anchor Publication date: 2021 Source: eBook borrowed from the library Summary: Qian arrived in the United States in 1994 with her mother, joining her father who had already … Continue reading →
The Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group held its annual book selection meeting on Thursday. We passed our 14th anniversary in June, and we’ve read 130 books together, so far. We each bring up to five books to propose … Continue reading →