#BookReview: Ruby Falls by @ginphillips.bsky.social (via @atlanticcrime.bsky.social ). #LockedRoom #Mystery More On #WomensFiction End Than #Horror End.
#amreading #historicalfiction #Chattanooga #Atlanta #LookoutMountain #Appalachia #murder #survival #SeeRubyFalls #BookSky 📚💙⌛
Calling for a rating system on all books is *far* more nefarious than mandating that sexually explicit books be kept out of childrens' spaces.
(And to be crystal clear, that second thing is *NOT* banning books.)
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#BookReview: Sing Down The Moon by Robert Gwaltney (via Mercer University Press). Strong Tale Will Expose What Kind Of Reader You Are.
#amreading #fiction #literary #Georgia #Fitzgerald #Hemingway #Steinbeck #McCarthy #Superman #Wolverine #Reacher #Predator #wine #beer #art #BookSky 📚💙🖋️🖊️
#BookReview: Body Electric by Manoush Zomorodi (via @flatironbooks.bsky.social ). Clarion Call For Post- #COVID Society To Move More.
#amreading #nonfiction #science #health #medicine #healthyliving #remotework #office #wellness #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BookReview: What If Jesus Is Right by Douglas Groothuis and Lindsey Medenwaldt (via @tyndalehouse.bsky.social ). Routine Conservative #Christian #Apologetics.
#amreading #nonfiction #Christianity #ChristianLiving #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BookReview: In Defense Of #Sunlight by Rowan Jacobsen (via @scribnerbooks.bsky.social). Short Yet Thoroughly Documented Clarion Call Inspired By Pollan’s In Defense Of Food.
#amreading #nonfiction #health #science #physiology #time #standardtime #daylightsavingtime #DST #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BookReview: Chosen Land by @matt-avery-sutton.bsky.social (via @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social ). "His Assessment Told Only Half The Story".
#amreading #nonfiction #history #politics #UnitedStates #Christianity #Christian #BookSky📚💙💡
#BookReview: Where The False Gods Dwell by @dennysbryce.bsky.social (via @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social ). Strong (Historical) Women’s Fiction Ends As Breathtaking Thriller.
#amreading #historicalfiction #womensfiction #Chicago #Jamaica #GreatDepression #Prohibition #Hurricane #BookSky📚💙⌛
#BookReview: The Greatest Scientific Gamble by Michael Joseloff (via Michigan State University Press). Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Werner Heisenberg.
#amreading #nonfiction #history #science #nuclear #WWII #US #Germany #BookSky📚💙⌛
#BlogTour: All The Ways You Break Me by @melissawiesner.bsky.social (via @bookouture.bsky.social ). Worthy Successor.
#bookreview #amreading #amreadingromance #romance #smalltown #beach #family #secrets #sisters #motherhood #trauma #BookSky 📚💙🌶️
#BookSky 📚💙For those one or two who may be interested in my history as a reader :)
#BookReview: Trust No One by @jamesrollins.bsky.social (via William Morrow) Non- #SigmaForce #Adventure Blend of Rollins, #MatthewReilly, #JeremyRobinson, And Others.
#amreading #thriller #books #BookSky📚💙⚡
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1850 or 2020:
"The parties in this conflict are ... atheists, socialists, communists ... on the one side, & the friends of order & regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battleground—Christianity & Atheism the combatants; & the progress of humanity the stake."
#BookReview: I Told You So by Matt Kaplan (via @stmartinspress.bsky.social ). Interesting History That Can In Fact Comes Across As Extended Ad For Author’s Day Job.
#amreading #nonfiction #history #science #medicine #antiseptic #Galileo #paleontology #COVID #reading #books #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BookReview: Feed The People by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social (via @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social). #Food -Like #Reading - Is *NOT* Political, Despite Authors' Claims.
#amreading #nonfiction #publicpolicy #agrigulture #farming #technology #health #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BookReview: Adrift by Will Dean (via @atriabooks.bsky.social ). What If Carrie Never Developed Superpowers?
#amreading #mystery #isolation #family #secrets #psychological #abuse #bullying #BookSky 📚💙⚡
Certain books *absolutely* have more or less allegory than others, but this is more a rebuttal to a flat "reading is political".
Even in the allegorical books, you can choose to embrace the allegory... or ignore it and simply enjoy the story.
Reading is what you choose to make it. If you choose to make it political, it is political *for you*. If you choose - as I do - to use it as an *escape* from politics, it will be that *for you* as well.
#BookReview: What Tomorrow Will Be by Julianne MacLean. Proof That The Greatest Romances Don’t Always Involve HEA.
#amreading #amreadingromance #romance #tragedy #family #foodie #chef #restaurant #Canada #NovaScotia #WithoutRemorse #HundredFootJourney #BookSky 📚💙🌶️
#BookReview: It's Not Her by Mary Kubica (via @htpbooks.bsky.social ). Solid Mary Kubica #Thriller.
#amreading #mystery #family #secrets #smalltown #lake #missingperson #BookSky 📚💙⚡
#BookReview: Citizenship by Daisy Hernandez (via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social). Ironic Downfall.
#amreading #nonfiction #memoir #immigration #citizenship #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BookReview: The Unwritten Rules Of Magic by @harperrossbooks.bsky.social (via @stmartinspress.bsky.social ). Strong Tale of Multi-Generational Grief Marred By Preachiness On Certain Topics.
#amreading #magicalrealism #womensfiction #family #secrets #motherhood #BookSky 📚💙🌶️
I've got relatives - including one of the grandparents I mention in the review - buried at the cemetery across the street that was likely part of the same plantation as the Mounds in Felton's era, and I went to HS in part barely a quarter mile down the River on its opposite bank. 2/2
One example:
Felton at one point mentions the Etowah Indian Mounds as part of someone's plantation. (Which makes sense, actually, for the era.)
*I* knew it as a State Park. I spent a LOT of time barely a mile down the road at Cartersville's main public baseball/ softball fields. 1/2
I *hope* to have a new edition of this book on Amazon in time for #America250.
What I *want* to do is both work on the formatting *and* add an afterword as a native son of Cartersville looking back on my own childhood there at the *end* of the 20th century.
#BookReview: Country Life In #Georgia In The Days Of My Youth by Rebecca Latimer Felton. Fascinating Look Into A Bygone Era From A Truly Remarkable Woman.
#amreading #nonfiction #memoir #slavery #CivilWar #womensrights #suffrage #education #Cartersville #politics #GoneWithTheWind #BookSky 📚💙💡
#BlogTour: The Secret Twins Of Paris by @suzannekelman.bsky.social (via @bookouture.bsky.social ). Solid Penultimate Book In Series.
#bookreview #amreading #amreadingromance #historicalfiction #womensfiction #romance #ballet #family #secrets #spy #WWII #paris #BookSky 📚💙⌛🌶️
Thanks! :D
From an email I just got. Must mean it is release day for 30 Seven by @jrobinsonauthor.bsky.social.
If you like *dark*, blood soaked serial killer horror... you're going to love this book... ;) #BookSky 📚💙🪐🩸
(White) suffragette. Unabashed racist and former slave owner. Indigenous defender. First female - and last formerly slave owning - US Senator.
And she lived and died all over my own hometown.
Rebecca. Latimer. Felton.
