The harrowing journey of Cora as she escapes her plantation in Georgia. She spends some time in South Carolina and is temporarily tricked into the “uplifting” program which involves secret syphillis testing and “voluntary” sterilization as well as in a secret attack in North Carolina. Her mother is the only person prior to her to have escaped this plantation- or so she thought.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the way that the author used different chapters to take us to various different parts of the world and the United States to demonstrate how the history of the slave trade in America is represented and passed on either truthfully or not quite as truthfully. It is incredibly interesting, whilst at the same time exposing some horrific facts. Unfortunately I listed to this as an audiobook and did not feel that the author Clint Smith, despite being a poet, read it with much feeling or empathy. It was a relatively quick read but definitely leads me to want to do some more exploring of the information touched on in the book.

This is very much more of a character-driven story, and a character-exploration story, rather than a page turning, thrilling mystery novel. The main character, Anna, has just recently returned home after suffering a family tragedy and being kicked out by her husband. A detective who specializes in missing children, Anna's hometown has long haunted her as a girl she went to school with went missing in a still-unsolved case. Just as she returns, as it happens, another girl has gone missing - and Anna very quickly finds herself involved in solving the case. As she does so, her past trauma comes to light and becomes a force she will need to deal with if she is going to find Cameron and return to her family. I didn't really find this to be a page turner. In fact, it took me a while to get past the first section, because it's really just setting the stage and nothing much happens. I finally sat down and just plowed through the book in a day. It wasn't bad, but everything felt kind of flat and I didn't really care about Anna as a character. Even as she cried about the unknown trauma she had experienced, I never felt myself dying to know what had happened to her that led to her husband kicking her out. I just didn't care. I also don't love using real-life cases in a fictional story. It just felt exploitive and gross to me. Polly was a real girl who underwent something terrible, as did her family, and using it as some form of entertainment just doesn't sit right with me. Especially when you're going to make it a big piece of your plot, with your character investigating her bedroom and listening to a psychic talk about her.

This book is based on the premise that the solidarity dividend is when folks come together across racial lines benefits society as a whole. It is a dense book written mostly from an economical standpoint which surmises that the cost of racism and white supremacy hurts not only Black people but white people as well.

Book 2 of Kamigawa Cycle is amazing!

I enjoyed this book because I like reading about characters having fun at camp because I think it is entertaining reading about problems at camp and reading about how those problems got solved.I also like that every adult and kid is nice and that the book is realistic.

I love this book. The story was interesting, about a women named Bree who spent her days searching for the wreckage that claimed the lives of her husband and son. Her occupation is K9 search and rescue with her dog Sampson. The book is an easy read and uplifting. Colleen Coble is a Christian author, which I didn't know til I was halfway through the first book.

It was an interesting read and I discovered some new facts. In a nutshell it explains how Earth was formed and how everything lined up just right at the precise times and distances to create life as we know it. It delves into the subjects of chemistry, biology, and physics throughout, while naming notable scientists, physicists, etc. Overall, it took me quite some time to get through the book because it did not hold my interest, page after page.

Louise Erdrich's novel speaks of her ancestors and Chippewa culture. Her grandfather fought termination bringing his fight to Washington DC to help defeat the proposed dispossession of the Chippewa from Turtle Mountain in North Dakota. At points the book dulls and could have been shorter, though her characters come to life and her story teachers.

Eileen is a dark and disturbing Christmastime story about a young woman living in an unnamed New England town, sometime in the 1960s, caring for her alcoholic father while working at a prison for boys. Is Eileen an unreliable narrator or are things really about to go off the rails? Moshfegh's writing paints a vivid picture of this bleak winter, and the doomed friendship that gives Eileen a sliver of hope for her future.