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BOOK REVIEWS – Five ⭐️ Favorites Listed at Top

  • Four Treasures of the Sky – Jenny Tinghui Zhang
  • Deacon King Kong – James McBride
  • Shadows of Pecan Hollow – Caroline Frost
  • Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
  • The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles
  • Stork Bite – L. K. Simonds
  • Broken (in the best possible way) – Jenny Lawson
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blaine
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
  • Chevy in the Hole – Kelsey Ronan
  • Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett

Spare Parts – Paul Craddock

Spare Parts is a very readable history of the evolution of transplants of human body parts, from skin grafts through heart/lung and covering many centuries. Craddock gives us the science involved in an accessible manner. The entire book is my favorite kind of history, full of social, political and cultural context. From earliest times, we … Continue reading Spare Parts – Paul Craddock →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 22, 2022 1 Minute

The Murder of Mr. Wickham – Claudia Gray

Jane Austen enthusiasts will love this mystery and others will find it an entertaining late Regency period romp through a British house party gone terribly wrong (or right if you see it as many might). As the title and descriptions of this mystery suggest, all of the characters were first found in Jane Austin novels, … Continue reading The Murder of Mr. Wickham – Claudia Gray →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 14, 2022 2 Minutes

Little Souls- Sandra Dallas

What a lovely book. I was drawn to Little Souls because it falls at a time when the Spanish Influenza and WWI were simultaneously taking thousands of lives. I thought a story written about this era would be fascinating. But this book is about so much more, although both of those realities of the time … Continue reading Little Souls- Sandra Dallas →

Emily Leader Book Reviews 1 Comment May 13, 2022 2 Minutes

The School for German Brides – Aimie K. Runyan

Fans of historical fiction, like me, have read lots of books about people in the resistance during WWII or about those who politically opposed Hitler or those who hid Jews. Any decent thinking person will ask from time to time, "why did so many people allow this to happen?" I've gotten cynical enough to say … Continue reading The School for German Brides – Aimie K. Runyan →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 8, 2022 3 Minutes

In the Face of the Sun – Denny S. Bryce

"In the Face of the Sun" is a portrait of several generations of a Los Angeles family, initially living in a Sears Roebuck home, built from a kit, living a fairly middle class/working class life. In 1928, Daisy and Henrietta still live at home with their parents, but their mother is seriously ill. She suffered … Continue reading In the Face of the Sun – Denny S. Bryce →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 7, 2022 3 Minutes

Dream Town – David Baldacci

I'm loving the Archer series, with the third entry confirming that David Baldacci has successfully nailed the hard boiled detective genre. When visiting his friend and aspiring star Liberty Callahan on New Years Eve 1953, Archer is drawn into a case when Liberty's friend, Ellie Lamb runs into them at dinner. Ellie is afraid someone … Continue reading Dream Town – David Baldacci →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 5, 2022 1 Minute

The Book Woman’s Daughter – Kim Michele Richardson

There's background to this story that is relayed in The Book Woman's Daughter such that this can be read as a stand alone book or the two books can be read out of order. If you asked me which I'd prefer, I'm glad I read the earlier book first. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. … Continue reading The Book Woman’s Daughter – Kim Michele Richardson →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 4, 2022 3 Minutes

Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett

This is, and will stay, a favorite book for me. One of my Goodreads categories is "quirky" and only the best are recognized, because quirky can easily fall into "dorky" or "jerky" or "malarky." Only the finest of writers can pull off quirky and Hartnett is one. Emma is coming home because her father has … Continue reading Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment May 3, 2022May 7, 2022 3 Minutes

The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare -Kimberly Brock

When I was around 9, my family's summer road trip (always ten days, meticulously planned by my father) took us to Roanoke Island and we saw the play about the lost colony. 1587! I didn't understand in 1963 or so how old that was. At that age, the U.S. Colonial times melted together with Columbus … Continue reading The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare -Kimberly Brock →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment April 29, 2022 2 Minutes

Yellow Wife -Sadeqa Johnson

Yellow Wife tells a tale of Pheby Delores Brown, an enslaved woman whose life we follow from a fairly privileged position on a plantation to serving as the concubine of a cruel man who runs a jail/breaking house/auction service for enslaved people in Richmond, Virginia. The novel has been around for awhile now and the … Continue reading Yellow Wife -Sadeqa Johnson →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment April 27, 2022 1 Minute

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