A sortable list of my 2021 book reviews
2021 Book Reviews
2022 Southern Literature Reading Challenge
Welcome to the 2022 Southern Literature Reading Challenge! We’ll focus on books and authors from the southeastern region of the United States. Definitions of the South are flexible, so I’ve decided to base my definition on the current makeup of the Southern Legislative Conference […]
2022 Books in Translation Reading Challenge
Welcome to the 2022 Books in Translation Reading Challenge! It’s pretty self-explanatory, right? Nevertheless, here are the rules […]
Books I’ve Added to My TBR
We’ve reached week five of Nonfiction November and I’m sharing the books I’ve added to my TBR. The OC BookGirl asks “It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book!” This month got […]
Weekly Update for November 28, 2021
Welcome to my weekly update for November 28, 2021! I hope that everyone who celebrates had a wonderful Thanksgiving! My husband was on call at the hospital and of course he got called in for the evening before we had dinner. So we had our delayed Thanksgiving meal on Friday evening. A couple of our […]
Weekly Update for November 21, 2021
Welcome to my weekly update for November 21, 2021! My husband is on call at the hospital over Thanksgiving weekend but he had three days off this weekend so we came home to Asheville to visit family for a few days. We’ve missed seeing most of the fall color on the trees but the skies […]
Women in History: Nonfiction November
Welcome to Nonfiction November! Our hosts–Rennie at What’s Nonfiction?, Katie at Doing Dewey, Veronica at The Thousand Book Project, Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks, and Jaymi at The OC Book Girl–have five weeks of fun topics for us to explore. I’m writing about women in history for Veronica’s prompt: “Three ways to join in this week! You can either […]
Weekly Update for November 14, 2021
Welcome to my weekly update for November 14, 2021! My little sister turns 40 today! I can’t believe it! She’s with her husband visiting an old friend at her home in St. Croix, USVI for two weeks. There are worse places to spend your 40th birthday. As I write this on Friday night, I have […]
Pairing Nonfiction and Fiction
Welcome to Nonfiction November! Our hosts–Rennie at What’s Nonfiction?, Katie at Doing Dewey, Veronica at The Thousand Book Project, Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks, and Jaymi at The OC Book Girl–have five weeks of fun topics for us to explore. This week, we’re pairing nonfiction and fiction books. “This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. […]
Weekly Update for November 7, 2021
Welcome to my weekly update for November 7, 2021! Last week I asked if you thought I should attend YALLfest, a young adult book festival, even as an adult reader, and you all agreed that I should. I’m looking at the festival schedule now and figuring out which panels I’d like to attend. But I […]
The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph: Book Review
4 Stars. In The Black Friend, Frederick Joseph shares his own experiences with racism, his response in the moment, how he wishes he’d actually responded, and demonstrates ways to be anti-racist. I can’t imagine these stories were easy to share. Some of them were so egregious that my jaw dropped and I was like, “What?!? Someone said […]