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Joyce, Helen. Trans. A One World Book, 2022. Sometimes, you have to speak up! As a high school teacher, recently the subject of transsexuality has become an important topic. After teaching for over 19 years, suddenly, the halls of our small, rural high school have begun to populate with trans students. Last year, there was …
Moriarty, Liane. Apples Never Fall. Henry Holt and Company, 2021. You are going to love this book – especially if you are a mom of adult children – particularly if you are ready to retire. I really love the Delaney family that Moriarty created. A husband (Stan) and wife (Joy) who have worked together giving …
Prose, Nita. The Maid. Ballentine Books, 2022. Did you read Peggy Parish’s Amelia Bedelia books when you were a kid? If you did, you are going to love Molly the maid. I don’t think I thought much about Amelia when I was a child reading her books, but when I was an adult re-reading them …
Gyasi, Yaa. Transcendent Kingdom. Knopf Doubleday, 2020. When is the last time you found a new favorite author? Ever since I was a kid, I have always had my favorites and tried to read all of their work. As soon as I read Gyasi’s first novel, Homegoing, I was eager to read more. I’m not …
Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. Wow! That is the only fitting way to start a review of Yaa Gyasi’s premiere novel, Homegoing. Just, wow. This novel well deserves all the awards it has garnered specifically, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a …
Dave, Laura. The Last Thing He Told Me. Simon & Schuster, 2021. So…do you know your parents? I mean REALLY know them. Not the the stories they have told you about their families, their childhoods, and their years before you were born. Are those stories true? Have you fact checked them? You might think about …
Lapena, Shari. Not a Happy Family. Pamela Dorman Books, 2021. Have you ever read a book where every single character was unlikeable and odious? Did you like it? I was about half way into this one when I realized that there wasn’t one single likeable character and I loved it! First, there are the parents, …
Grisham, John. The Judge’s List. Doubleday, 2021. Ahhhh, John Grisham. Do you know someone who hasn’t read one of his legal thrillers? Probably not. I’d like to find one of the 5,000 people who read his first book A Time to Kill before he became famous for his second book, The Firm. What a story! …
Smith, Amber. The Way I Used to Be. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017. A student told me about this book and I decided to read it. I’m glad that I did. I have to admit though that at first, I was not impressed, but since I had promised to read it along with the student …