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Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou.  Sisters and murder.  I'm one quarter through the book.  The language pulls you in, the relationships are what you want to pick apart like threads so you can see all the individual pieces, the lapses and dialations in time reveal as well as hide pertinant information, it is a puzzle where one piece disappears and ( Read more... )

Winterfolk by Janel Kolby.  Children attempt to save their homeless camp near Seattle from demolition.

The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron.  The last Neanderthal to live and the archaeoloist who finds her bones and artifacts.  Two wmen seperated by millennia but linked by an epic jouney.

Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym and The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick.

The one thing I took away from Gone is how previlant abuse is in society no matter where you come from or what you do for a living.  It was uplifting to read how Min Kym became a survivor in the face of her victimization.

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adam_0oo bought me The Betrothed by Kiera Cass for my birthday.  I've been a fan of Kiera Cass since the scholastic bookfair rolled into the school library in 2016 with her Selection Series and I enjoyed her first novel written: Siren.  I really enjoy her works, she has an easy style that can quickly decend into suspense and the emotions of her characters ( Read more... )

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi.

Saint Mazie: A Novel by Jami Attenberg.

Lush, but sparse prose...economical elegance...it draws me right in, along with the early 20th Century venacular.  A story of one woman who helps those in need during the Great Depression on the Lower East Side of New York via the Venice Movie Theatre.  Historical Fiction based on a real person.

The Graveyard of the Hesperides: A Flavia Albia Novel by Lindsey Davis - It's basically the same premise as The Mistress of the Art of Death Books by Ariana Franklin, but it takes place in First Century Rome.  This is the fourth book in the series, but yolo!

Cave Dwellers by Richard Grant - A novel of historical espionage to overthrow Adolf Hitler ( Read more... )