“Everyone is taking the best shot they’ve got, and some shots are just luckier than yours. Anytime you feel your unhappiness turning into bitterness, you have to check yourself. You can live with unhappiness, but bitterness will kill”― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders Richard Osman has channeled his winning formula for A Thursday Murder Club Mystery series […]
I grew up in a large family in a small, rural town. Money was tight for our family of nine and my older siblings all had jobs, especially during the summer. My brothers worked on neighboring farms during the day and at night, they caught night crawlers (worms) by the hundreds. We lived near a
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“She felt less like a mere human being, and more like a human who was merely being.”–Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea This book was recommended to me as a good introduction to Brandon Sanderson. It is a stand alone book with a lot of characters, but not too many characters. In fact to
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“The American people themselves “are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.”― James Garfield quoted by Jon Grinspan, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 In our current setting of extreme political partisanship and
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“There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is deliberate. The lie that sets the stage for everything that comes after it. And once the lie
“Paradise: If communism is Paradise, why do we need barriers, walls, and laws to keep people from escaping?”― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You This is a powerful novel is set in 1989 Romania when Communist regimes across Europe were crumbling. Unfortunately, Nicolae Ceaușescu was still the tyrannical dictator of Romania where he ruled with fear and an
“There’s nothing more human than being wrong,” she said quietly. “Or being persuaded one way and then regretting your decision. I would argue that learning to live with that regret is the most human thing of all.”― Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada I have enjoyed the previous books I’ve read by Uzma Jalaluddin and this book
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“In 1880, 50 percent of Black men in the former Confederacy voted. By 1920, less than 1 percent exercised this fundamental right.”–Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland I am still reeling from this book. Timothy Egan’s masterful and well researched book chronicles the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the
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“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.” —Emma M. Lion Are you on the Emma M. Lion train yet? I am not sure how I missed this series for so
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