You'll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
by Laura L. Engel
Unfortunately, not an uncommon story (2/18/2023)
Laura Engel starts the book off with a good hook and the story went along well for the first half. The second half is just one big whine. Not to be insensitive, people's lives move on and what happened in the past shouldn't be brought up constantly. Unfortunately, that is how it appeared in the book. Some things can be kept to just a few people and others need never be the wiser...does it really make a difference in anyone's life?
Honor
by Thrity Umrigar
Life can be unexplainable (10/29/2022)
This author has been on the 'to read' list for some time. After finally reading this book, the other books have moved up on the reading list.
This book addresses an age-old problem of the hierarchy set by communities, religion, and the more dominant sex and how that hierarchy is maintained. Even in modern times, education plays such an important role. Keeping people ignorant and afraid is the key to also keeping them enslaved and maltreated. The world never seems to change.
People's hopes, dreams, loves continue even during diversity and pain...they persevere.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel
by Christy Lefteri
Why a war? (7/4/2020)
This book will haunt me for years. Every time a 'conflict' is on the news, the discussion only involves the soldiers. But what about the people who aren't involved in the fighting? The ones who were just living their life and now can't? The ones who no longer have a home, family, livelihood? And, yet, they also have no place to go, to try to find normalcy...whatever that can be after such horrendous events. I will never understand this need to cause a war with no plan for those who just want to have their life. Thank you Christy Leftri for the heart wrenching novel.