Book #12: Such a Fun Age
By: Kiley Reid Narrated By: Nicole Lewis This is the highly anticipated debut novel by Kiley Reid. I had avoided this book until now because I don’t like the title, but after deciding that wasn’t a good enough reason, I went forward with listen to it on...March In Review
Reading is surprisingly difficult when there is a global pandemic taking over your life!! March had us mostly adjusting the way we operate 100%. I am able to work from home, and so my days are still quite full, but with the added collective trauma of COVID-19. That...Book #11: Olive, Again
By: Elizabeth Strout Because I like to go into books mostly blind, I, didn’t necessarily do my homework on this one. This was actually the last book I bought in 2019, before beginning this challenge in 2020. I didn’t realize that it was a sequel, and I...Book #10: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony “Ray” Hinton The Sun Does Shine is a heartbreaking memoir of a man who spent 30 years in a 6 foot by 9 foot cell in Holman Correctional’s Death Row for crimes that he didn’t commit. Ray was 29 when he was sentenced to death for...Book #9: Homegoing
By: Yaa Gyasi Wooooow. What a book. I was hooked from page 1, and stayed hooked throughout the entire novel. I say “novel,” and it is, but it really is essentially a collection of short stories that follow a variety of characters through the three hundred...Welcome to the last book club
welcome to the last book club, one of the “other things.”