In response to a Book Riot and Out of the Box essay on documenting the personal experiences of the pandemic, this timeline will also be in correlation to the ongoing authoritarian threat from the Trump-Republican regime. Any and all essays on the subjects will be posted here as links. Timeline
Categories: Diary, Essays • Tags: Coronavirus, Diary, Essays, Non-Fiction, Pandemic Diary, Politics, SocioPolitical, Timeline
I’ve read the first five of the Malory-Anderson Family series books. While I like Love Only Once, Tender Rebel and Say You Love Me, my favorites so far are Gentle Rogue and The Magic of You. First, some of the language could be considered a bit iffy—I’ll leave you to deduce which on your own if you choose to read; secondly, as with any historical fiction, there are some problematic issues, namely men and patriarchy, but what’s a girl gonna […]
Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: All Things Books, Book Review, Gentle Rogue, Johanna Lindsey, Malory-Anderson Family Series, Review, The Magic of You
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Categories: Lists, Reviews • Tags: All Things TV, Bridgerton, Netflix, Television
When I heard about Breonna Taylor’s murderers evading justice with a minor charge of endangering white people, I was reading about 23-year-old Claude Neal: “…perhaps the single worst act of torture and execution in twentieth-century America occurred in the panhandle town of Marianna, Florida, a farm settlement halfway between Pensacola and Tallahassee.” When I was standing in line to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I was reading about Ida Mae voting the first time in her life at […]
Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: All Things Books, Book Review, Isabel Wilkerson, Review, The Warmth of Other Suns
Oy, speaking of rape/non-con…I took one glance at the Goodreads reviews and decided to not even bother. I even unfollowed a celeb reviewer after reading their review of this book that was—scant, and…stuffy? Needless to say, if you’re traumatized by the subject of rape/non-con or bondage, you may wanna pass this one up; you would, however, be dismissing an amazing female protagonist in Rowena Belleme, and how Lindsey took the subject of rape/non-con and subverted it totally upending this trope […]
Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: All Things Books, Book Review, Johanna Lindsey, Prisoner of My Desire, Review
If you’re squeamish about slavery and chains, you may as well take a pass on this entire Haardrad Family series. If you do though you’ll be missing out on some great characters. Set during the Viking and Anglo-Saxon era of British history with ‘the great’ King Alfred of Wessex, this book has one of my favorite—if not the favorite—female protagonist and couples of all time, Kristen Haardrad and Royce of Wyndhurst. Yes, another Royce. I remember reading this book way […]
Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: All Things Books, Book Review, Hearts Aflame, Johanna Lindsey, Review
