First Book of 2020
Sharing my first book of 2020 along with other readers all over the world.
Read More Children’s Book Review: Towers Falling By Jewell Parker Rhodes
TOWERS FALLING By: Jewell Parker Rhodes Published: July 12, 2016 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Fiction/Junior Fiction Several years ago, I read Jewell Parker Rhodes book on Hurricane Katrina. It too was written for middle-grade readers as a way to understand what happened during the disaster in New Orleans. NINTH WARD focused on…
Read More Book Review: Working Stiff By Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
WORKING STIFF Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner By: Judy Melinek, M.D. and T.J. Mitchell Published: August 12, 2014 Publisher: Scribner Non-Fiction For some reason, I am fascinated by medical memoirs. This one is kind of on the other end of medical…more in the morgue, but still an interesting look…
Read More Book Review: A Fall of Marigolds By Susan Meissner
A FALL OF MARIGOLDS By: Susan Meissner Published: February 4, 2014 Fiction So many of the books I have read lately take a story from the past and merge it with the present. I have loved how it was done in other novels like ORPHAN TRAIN, THE STORYTELLER, and CALLING ME HOME and this one…
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