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During this blog we turn the Authors Spotlight onto Lukas Klessig and his book “Words With My Father: A Bipolar Journey Through Turbulent Times”.

Words With My Father offers a gripping portrait of the evolution of a young man's mental illness and how it manifested into a dramatic and often dangerous existence through the turbulence of the Civil Rights, Peace and Conservation movements.

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Wrapped up January by finishing The Mountains Sings. Recommend it and also love using The StoryGraph for tracking

Literary and historical fiction with well-written prose of unlikeable characters. I most enjoyed the shorter section told from the POV of Charlene's daughters.

Bailed a few chapters in, this one is not for me!

Starting this on audio #cloudlibrary

Belated, but here‘s my Christmas book haul from my mom! Very excited about all of these. I‘m prioritizing Martyr! though, for the 2025 TOB.

Fell behind on my #12booksof2024 !

I read this one with my book club to mixed reviews, but I loved this sister story set in Vietnam.

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Thao Lam is a master storyteller. I have enjoyed other books by this author but would consider this among their best work. Honestly, I‘m surprised this does not have a Caldicott. This is her mother ‘s refugee story told entirely in pictures. This story is heart wrenchingly beautiful. And the analogy of refugees as ants and what can and did happen. I‘m very thankful the author chose to include at the end a history of their family and

A work of historical fiction written from the perspective of a communist spy working with the South at the time of the fall of Saigon. Traverses Vietnam, America and Philippines. The protagonist‘s confession and enlightenment under torture thereafter form the crux of the novel. The writing is superb but the story isn‘t as engaging as one would have liked.