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This was a different and interesting take on the underground railroad as a literal physical thing. The concept was fresh enough, together with excellent writing, to garner it 2017’s Pulitzer Prize.
So I usually milk my gift cards, stringing them out all year, but this time I shot my wad all at once! Here is what I bought and why:
I enjoyed this book of historical fiction about the Empress SiSi (Elizabeth) married to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph of the Hapsburg line.
A New Year and a new reading challenge! I hope you join me in this, either for the first time, or again!
Above is the sgraffito pottery plate I made my husband for Christmas. And below that you can see what books our family received from each other for Christmas…
I exceeded my goal of 52 books and read 67 instead. Below you can check out what I read for each category.
This five star book is one of my favorite books this year. It is the best bits and nuggets from Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday program. And it is beautifully laid out with photographs, making the whole experience of reading it meandering and thoughtful.
I’ve been enjoying these two books of poetry lately and have marked some to eventually share with you.
All these cookbooks have gorgeous food, delicious recipes, creative approaches, and phenomenal photography.
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention …
This book is billed as a novel, but it is a record of a fictitious woman poet being interviewed, including all her mind’s meanderings and flashbacks.
Read this book when you are in the mood for something that is short and deep and not plot driven. I give it a very hushed five stars.
This is a non-fiction book about the rescue of 350,000 precious manuscripts in Timbuktu from Taliban destruction. I give it three stars.
People often ask me how I can get done all that I do, and keeping a bullet journal is part of that answer. Start keeping one yourself, customized to be most effective for you.
This book about the Ravensbruck all-women (non-Jew) concentration camp during WWII was harrowing and hard to read.
Well, first of all the scene on the cover never comes close to happening in the book. Secondly, the title is all wrong because it isn’t really about the man in the iron mask. It is a sequel to the Three Musketeers…
I have long wondered about the first Mrs. Einstein’s role in the origin of the theory of relativity. The fact that when she divorced him she was awarded all financial proceeds from his future Nobel prizes, only supported all sorts of evidence from letters that the early work was actually hers.