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Deb’s 2020 Year in Books
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Deb Spera
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in Louisville, Ky., The United States
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Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner, Pau
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May 2018
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Call Your Daughter Home
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2018
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Le Chant de nos filles
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It's a daunting thing to publish a novel. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had high hopes and low expectations, I've found life works better for me this way. What I've learned is that trying any creative venture offers many gifts along the way. This book is no exception The gifts this book has given me are numerous: new friends, connection with family I'd not had before, travel, readers who are tho
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"My first 5 star review of 2021. This is a heartbreaking book, but even with all of the hardship and tragedy, it still gives the reader a sense of hope and triumph. It revolves around three women who could not be more different, yet they find themselv"
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"Solid 4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this book. Annie, Gertrude and Retta are so different but similar at the same time...you can’t help but fall in love them.
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"Deb Spera's work of historical fiction deals with the rough subjects of abuse, racism, and poverty, and still, somehow her book leaves you believing in the goodness of mankind. Powerful, beautiful writing.
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| I think in life we are tasked with finding the deepest of truths and speaking them out loud, but first we have to educate ourselves otherwise we are just spitting in the wind. Abram Kendi educates in this incredible book. He breaks down and defines w ...more | |
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Unicorn Day
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Best Picture Books
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Deb Spera
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Call Your Daughter Home:
Thank you so much for reading! I learned the song as a child. Go tell Aunt Rhody is how I remembered the song and what I researched it as. It does seem everyone has a variation of this song from their youth. Thanks again for reading and I'll be at th
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“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”
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― Call Your Daughter Home
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| Busy as a Bee Books: 06/11/19: Book News | 5 | 7 | Jun 17, 2019 12:10PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: June 2019 Scattergories | 71 | 53 | Jul 02, 2019 11:59AM | |
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Now accepting nominations for our September, 2019, Group Reads
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