The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

QOTD: What was your last 5 star read?__The Water DancerTa-Nehisi Coates__This book is so blowing my mind! Hiram who is the son of a white plantation owner and is raised with his half brother only to have them be separated once he is old enough for the fields and his brother gets to remain in the…

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

QOTD: What are you doing this Sunday? Daughter has ballet, then Covid test for school reopening then park (in case it goes bad)__Act Your Age, Eve Brown#TaliaHibbert#arcreviewPub date: 2/9__Wow Eve! 💜 This is the third book in the Brown sisters series. I have yet to read Dani’s book but I loved Chloe’s. This book did…

Love and Lockdown by Alyce Caswell

Pub date 3/4/21 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐💫 I have been wondering what a romance set during the pandemic might look like. Though this one started off as fictional even in the story but with a little bit of enemies to lovers and forced proximity it turned into more. Angela and Colin are neighbors and don’t necessarily get along. Colin,…

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

“There is no feminism without noise.” I don’t read many biographies or memoirs which I plan to because I love listening to people’s stories and with this pandemic I don’t get to hang out with people as much. For my job I usually visit clients’ worksites and chat with people and people don’t want to…

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

This was in three points of view – in 1791 Nella and Eliza and present day Caroline.Nella, an apothecary who dispenses poisons to help women free themselves from abusive, lascivious men. Eliza is a twelve year old who needs to buy some poison for her mistress . Caroline married to a successful man, she discovers his infidelity…