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I found another book scavenger hunt on Instagram & decided to use favorite female authors again for Women‘s History Month.

🐖 An animal: Pigs in Heaven (read The Bean Trees first)
💙 A cover you love: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
🔥 A verb in the title: Burning Bright
🐘 A 3 word title: Water for Elephants
Ⓜ️ A title or author starting with M: Sue Monk Kidd
💛 A yellow spine: Shrill
🌺 A floral cover: Purple Hibiscus

👉 Tag! You‘re it!

Wow, what amazingly beautiful prose! Has that very southern story telling tradition vibe about it. I‘m am going to pick it up in print when I find it to read the other stories in this edition.

#CoverStories

I have eight #River books on my Kindle. I just finished & LOVED Frozen River & read Follow the River Home several years ago. The the others are still in my TBR. 🏞️

A thoughtful and valiant reckoning, writing it was clearly a labor of love by the author.

Set in Tenessee in 1952 this is a great story of a family of 3 brothers + a father who is returning after a long absence. The father E F Bloodworth, in his 70s has a reputation for violence in the past and for playing the banjo. The bk also focuses on his grandson Fleming. This was a really enjoyable family drama with great characters and some brilliant scenes. Evokes the region + tensions within families, as well as the exuberance of youth well

This morning we welcome Wynn Ashley, our third grandchild and our son‘s second daughter. She‘s my reason for hope and a way to find beauty in this world. Which is much needed right now!

"Because Wheeler survived. Because he and Emmett rode their bikes on this street. Because the gun still fires, because the barn is a barn, because time is thin and fragile. Because the dirt Jeff Andrews and I were taught to love is very different from the dirt Wheeler Parker was taught to fear."

This book is just bringing me to my knees.

"I saw there was a second South. My whole life I‘d only seen one. I loved my South, though I could see how it was broken, plagued still with the legacies of slavery and war and segregation. History and a thousand unseen walls divided up the territory . . ." Pic of the real Monroeville (Harper Lee's Maycomb). I suspect there are many similarities with Jackson's Birchville. #truth #SisterLove
#FeelintheLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

“Most people don't think fate has a sound. But it does. Everything has a sound if you listen carefully enough.” This is a lovely read 💙🩵💜

#FeelinTheLove #Lonely

 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My current read. A non-fiction look into the murder of 14-year old Emmett Till in 1955. Wright Thompson grew up just miles away from the barn, although never once heard the name Emmett Till until he was an adult. Wright explores the history of racism in the Mississippi Delta, the consequences of covering up this story, and why learning about accurate history is essential. A must read.
#BlackHistoryMonth #NonfictionRead