“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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