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Good Husbands: A Novel
by Cate Ray

Average, Average (4/17/2022)

I read the book, Good Husbands, waiting for something to really happen and pep it up a notch. It continued on a bland fashion and the ending was so predictable. The storyline just wasn't worth wading through, although, in honesty, the writing itself was good and …more

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem
by SandraTsing Loh

If funny is money, this is poor. (4/15/2020)

Good comedy is hard to write. Great comedy writing is a gift. This book is not a gift if one is looking for hearty laughs and tears running out in hysteria. It is simply not funny despite it's author, Sandra Tsing Loh, trying very, very hard. Comedy has to have "magic" and …more

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

A Job Well Done. (1/22/2020)

I enjoyed and was inspired reading this book. I marveled at the courage and confidence of women who were our grandmothers and even great grandmothers who stepped forward to take the early wings of transport air traffic during the days of WW2, to free the male pilots for …more

The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
by Mira Ptacin

Insights into Spiritualism in America (10/18/2019)

I really greatly enjoyed reading this book about the unusual subject of Spiritualism and how it began and evolved in our country starting in the mid 1840's and became a platform for women to have a heard voice . The author, Mira Ptacin, did a great deal of homework and …more

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
by Nefertiti Austin

Routine read (8/30/2019)

I read this book by Nefertiti Austin hoping to gain deeper insights into the challenges and difficulties in raising an adopted child by a single black woman. The book did not do that. It was readable enough and the author wrote truthfully about her background, I felt, but …more

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose

D-Day Dull (4/3/2019)

I looked forward to reading this account of the valiant women who volunteered to be dropped behind enemy lines during WW2 prior to D Day to create havoc and damage for the Allied forces. The reading was crammed with facts and much documentation supporting the exploits of …more

When We Left Cuba
by Chanel Cleeton

Life with Beatriz Perez (1/9/2019)

I dearly enjoyed reading "When We Left Cuba" and all the exploits of the undaunted Latina spitfire, Beatriz Perez. Her adventures carry us accurately through historical passages such as the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and Kennedy Assassination and I found myself …more

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