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DJ
Apr 4, 2024
Becoming
I listened to Michelle Obama read her book herself in the e-audio version. It had more meaning hearing her voice sharing her experiences and emotions.
DJ
Mar 26, 2024
Killers of the Flower Moon
I’m glad I read this book before attempting to watch the movie. It’s so upsetting what was done to North America’s Indigenous peoples. Why weren’t we taught these facts in American history?
SG
Mar 19, 2024
Deaf in a City of Music
I couldn't stomach another page of the white-hearing-Evangelical-saviorism of this book. Horribly ableist. Horribly oppressive.
KW
Mar 19, 2024
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
I can recommend this true story of a woman who had to push her way into law school in the early 1900s . She became a champion of the immigrants who not speaking, reading or understanding English well were at the mercy of the courts in the USA. She...
DJ
Mar 12, 2024
Hillbilly Elegy
I listened to the audiobook. I liked hearing the author read it with the emotion he felt as he wrote it.
DJ
Feb 18, 2024
Born a Crime
I enjoyed this book. I listened to the audio version which helps you connect with the author as he recorded it himself. Trevor has a gift- to be able to talk about very difficult things in his life in a way that had me laughing, crying and gaspin...
KW
Feb 18, 2024
Renegade
Worth reading. Adam gives an account of his time as a congressman and his experience on January 6th when the MAGA cult attacked the capitol.
AS
Feb 11, 2024
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
I struggled to get through this book. It sounded good but I tend to shy away from books where vulgar language appears and it appeared in the first sentence. If that kind of language doesn’t bother you, then you might find this book humorous but ...
KW
Feb 11, 2024
Hang the Moon
1920s whiskey gangs at war in west Virginia and a young woman not yet 20 due to her father, brother and older sister dying, becomes in charge of the family enterprise and has control of the county. some of the incidents described in the book actua...
WH
Feb 9, 2024
Storm Watch
First book of 2024
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