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February 9, 2022
Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron
Source: Publisher Hardcover, 336 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron is like Nancy Drew set during the time of Jane Austen’s life. Part of the title is inspired by the historic eruption of Mount Tambora, which caused some series climate effects, including crop failures, and […]
February 8, 2022
Kindle Deal & Interview with Syrie James, author of Struck by Love series
Welcome to today’s interview with Syrie James, who’s here to talk about her Struck by Love series of books. Don’t forget to stay until the end for the Amazon Kindle deal. Syrie James just revised, retitled, and rebranded two of her most popular romance novels as the Struck By Love series: FLOATING ON AIR and […]
February 7, 2022
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories by E. Ethelbert Miller
Source: the poet Paperback, 96 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories by E. Ethelbert Miller is a collection that spans not only the love of baseball, but also wider themes of racism, gender issues, and loss. The collection opens with “Hit This” in which […]
February 6, 2022
Mailbox Monday #669
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
February 2, 2022
Black Under by Ashanti Anderson
Source: Coriolis Publicity Paperback, 30 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Black Under by Ashanti Anderson is a poetry collection that will knock you back. In the opening ode, Anderson illuminates what it means to be Black and how beautiful it is. She equates it with the dark comfort of the womb, she alludes to […]
January 31, 2022
National Geographic Readers: Kamala Harris (Level 2) by Tonya K. Grant
Source: Media Masters Publicity Paperback, 32 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate National Geographic Readers: Kamala Harris (Level 2) by Tonya K. Grant provides early readers with some background on our current vice president and her background. My daughter read this one on her own, but she was interested in how Kamala and her sister […]
January 30, 2022
Mailbox Monday #668
Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]
January 26, 2022
National Geographic Readers: Stacey Abrams (Level 2) by Melissa H. Mwai
Source: Media Masters Publicity Paperback, 32 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate National Geographic Readers: Stacey Abrams (Level 2) by Melissa H. Mwai is a wonderful introduction to a modern activist that provides information on her formative years, her college years, and her ambitions. We loved that this was easy to read for my daughter […]
January 25, 2022
Red Widow by Alma Katsu (audio)
Source: Purchased Audible: 10+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Red Widow by Alma Katsu, narrated by Mozhan Marnò, is a thriller but from a female CIA analyst’s point of view. Don’t let the word “analyst” make you think this is all data focused because it isn’t. Lyndsey Duncan, the so-called human lie detector, is […]
January 24, 2022
Model Home by Jay Hall Carpenter
Source: Poet Paperback, 61 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Model Home by Jay Hall Carpenter is a collection reflecting on the homes we build, beginning with the landscape of “Common Ground,” in which the inside of a home may not be tenable but the land around it may be familiar and a place to […]
