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lous presbyterians were raising future politicians with dominionist theology the patriarchs were in control and tia inwardly recoiled while outwardly submitting she was after all a patriarch s wife when tia and the family moved over an hour north from our city to the blue house we thought it was all about having their own home having more space having chickens and such but the tiny town itself if you can call it a town was depressing sad and oppressive in a way that could suck the life out of anyone and more than anything else it was isolating and the patriarchy knew it when they moved them there how tia discovered herself how she clung to the light within her even as she was reminded that women aren t called to be individuals is remarkable but read her story yourself and keep in mind as you read that tia s experiences in a high control religion are less fringe that you think as tia writes to those hiding in plain sight let s keep flipping on that light switch and flooding these darkened rooms and consider this book a warning too a large portion of the u s wants our country to look like these darkened rooms where women stand quietly in corners with their heads bowed in submission to read about tia s real life makes me want to turn back time to when we sat together in bright green parks chatting while our kids played how i wish i could hold that tia s hands and tell her that allan and his gang of men are full of hit and she is worthy of all the happiness all the success and all the freedom can t wait for tia s next book warnings sexual assault rape domestic violence religious trauma infant death severe misogyny view all my reviews posted by sarah at smallworld at 3 24 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 23 2024 spring reads sitting in the hospital with mom for hours at a time gives me the opportunity to finally post book reviews for the past couple of months ii can probably trace my headspace by the books i m reading and how long it takes me to read them i ve been escaping in books a lot the past couple of months as caregiving difficulties escalate psychological thrillers are strangely comforting analyze that if you wish the secret book of flora lea by patti callahan henry story of two sisters evacuated from london in 1940 during the blitz tragedy happens in the countryside and the little sister vanishes the novel alternatives between the older sister 20 years later and the events as they happen in 1940 this was a pretty good story although the plot was rather contrived and unbelievable and the characters lacked depth circe by madeline miller best known for her role as a captivating swine turning witch in odysseus journey circe gets a whole book to herself here this is her story from birth to her endless life exiled to a lonely island it is a beautifully written intricately detailed captivating story if you love greek mythology and the odyssey you ll love it if that s not your thing you may not love this quite as much i think you ll still love it you don t have to know all the ins and outs of gods and goddesses to appreciate the writing mystery adventure and sheer drama of this novel another brooklyn by jacqueline woodson this was an emotionally tough read but so worth it august returns to brooklyn for her father s funeral as an adult and runs into one of her best childhood friends she remembers then what it was like to be a young black girl in brooklyn in the 1970s how she and her girlfriends played as children and then grew into teenagers together navigating family dilemmas keeping dangerous secrets and trying to keep their heads above water in a world full of loss danger and bits of joy beautiful writing of a snapshot of life in a particular time and place sing unburied sing by jesmyn ward 4 stars beautifully written and so heavy and sad this is the story of three generations in one family jojo the 13 year old boy who tries to hold the family together leonie his often absent mother who wants to be a good parent but is tormented by drug addiction and pop the grandfather who tries to save his grandchildren knowing he s lost their mother his daughter parchman the state penitentiary looms as another dark character with stories to tell that wind throughout the family highly recommended when you are in a good place for a heavy but redemptive book where we belong by emily giffin i need more books like this in my life it was a sweet story about a daughter who finds her birth mother and each of their own stories some complexity but mostly just an easy satisfying feel good read something in the water the perfect mother the lies you wrote and lights out four thrillers i read while traveling on airplanes or waiting in airports to fly on those airplanes none were particularly memorable but all were fast reads and a good way to pass that hours of the three the perfect mother was the best i listen to audiobooks while i walk and i take a lot of walks or at least i did pre hospital here are the audiobooks demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver i read this last year and it was my book of the year i needed to re read it for book club this year so i chose the audio version it was just as good the second time around i tell everyone this but watch dopesick for another level of understanding about the novel anyway the audio version was excellent except the reader s accent was extremely distracting for me personally he definitely did not sound like he was from lee county va anyway that has nothing to do with kingsolver s outstanding novel and probably doesn t bother a lot of people but i m weird about accents the invention of wings by sue monk kidd fantastic historical fiction about the grimke sisters sarah and angelina early abolitionists and supporters of women s rights from charleston who left behind charleston society and their slaveholding family to fight for equal rights kidd s author s note at the end is also fascinating as she relates how the book came to be and the sources she consulted the heaven and earth grocery store by james mcbride reader dominic hoffman made this book come alive for me this is a winding epic about the community of chicken hill a neighborhood where jewish immigrants and african americans lived and worked together outside the white establishment it s a beautiful novel and although i got lost sometimes and ultimately forgot that the whole book was telling the story of a mysterious skeleton i thoroughly enjoyed it finding dorothy 5 stars loved this historical fiction novel based on the story of maud baum wife of l frank baum author of the wonderful wizard of oz i loved hearing all the bits and pieces of their life together that ended up in the book from maud s fear of scarecrows as a little girl to a fake emerald ring that inspired the emerald city my side of the river by elizabeth camarillo gutierrez this is gutierrez s memoir of growing up caught between two worlds as the u s born daughter of mexican immigrants her parents are determined that their children will be educated in the states but when their tourist visas expire and the family must go back to mexico they all have to make difficult decisions i loved hearing this is the author s own voice and i think this is a valuable look into the trauma of family separation resulting from broken immigration laws the guncle by steven rowley what a delightful book the author read this sweet and funny story of patrick or gup gay uncle patrick former tv star brother to greg best friend to sarah and uncle to their children maisie and grant when sarah passes away greg begs patrick to take the kids for the summer patrick reluctantly agrees and the summer is full of the three of them learning about each other the world themselves and how to grieve posted by sarah at smallworld at 2 20 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday february 29 2024 february reads february reading listening was mostly mediocre with a couple of standouts 1 you could make this place beautiful by maggie smith a gorgeous memoir by the amazing poet the title comes from the last line of her most well known poem good bones anyway this is her memoir of her unexpected crushing divorce the before during and after told in snapshots in her lyrical voice i loved it 2 what happened to ruthie ramirez by claire jimenez audio thirteen year old ruthie disappeared without a trace after school one day and a decade later her sisters think they see her on a reality tv show i loved listening to this story of this family s loss and trauma told through multiple voices of the ramirez women mother dolores and her three daughters jessica nina and ruthie this book is raw sometimes funny and both heartwarming and heartbreaking author jiménez reads the audio version of this and she was incredible our missing hearts by celeste ng was a re read for me this time i listened to it and it was just as good the second time around if you haven t read it well please do it s a dystopian novel but it sure gets uncomfortably close to reality sometimes the last green valley by mark sullivan and westering women by sandra dallas were both good historical fiction sullivan tells the amazing true story of a ukrainian family in world war ii who escaped the soviets westering women traces a group of 40 single women who ventured on the overland trail from chicago to california in the 1850s in search of husbands amongst the gold miners domestic abuse and sa warnings everything else was a solid 3 out of 5 stars which is my pretty good but not really memorable rating except for pineapple street which i wasted about 10 hours of my life listening to and yet i kept listening because i truly believed that something would happen in the end the entire book was actually just an excruciating look into the lives of the extremely wealthy and privileged audiobooks posted by sarah at smallworld at 3 06 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 27 2024 pineapple street pineapple street by jenny jackson my rating 2 of 5 stars one of the most inane books i ve ever encountered i kept waiting for something to happen wondering if anything was ever going to happen or if the entire book is just an excruciating look into the lives of the extremely wealthy and privileged i listened to the entire book and wow it actually was just an excruciating look into the lives of the extremely wealthy and privileged it s an entire novel with zero plot it s not even a character driven novel as the characters were boring whiny and completely unrelatable unless perhaps you belong to the world s wealthiest 1 i have this two stars rather than one because jackson is a good writer she has great dialogue and description but this whole pointless novel felt like a chance for her to relate every witty conversation and anecdote she s ever heard at the country club if you move in her circles you might get a kick out the stories but for the rest of us peasants it s just silliness view all my reviews posted by sarah at smallworld at 3 10 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 13 2024 what happened to ruthy ramirez what happened to ruthy ramirez by claire jiménez my rating 4 of 5 stars fantastic debut novel audio version i did not want to do anything except listen to the story of this family s loss and trauma told through multiple voices of the ramirez women mother dolores and her three daughters jessica nina and ruthy thirteen year old ruthy disappeared without a trace after school one day and a decade later her sisters think they see her on a reality tv show the chapters alternate between the women as they filter through their memories of ruthy the losses the family suffered and their individual stories this book is raw sometimes funny and both heartwarming and heartbreaking author jiménez reads the audio version of this and she was incredible view all my reviews posted by sarah at smallworld at 11 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday february 10 2024 the dead romantics the dead romantics by ashley poston my rating 3 of 5 stars unapologetically sweet and sappy love story i didn t know this was a romance novel when i started duh the title might have alerted me but i don t regret reading it i needed something corny charming and predictable in a good way view all my reviews posted by sarah at smallworld at 11 09 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels happy ending romance friday february 9 2024 when no one is watching when no one is watching by alyssa cole my rating 3 of 5 stars this thriller has definite get out vibes sydney green s brooklyn neighborhood is revitalizing at an alarming rate and black neighbors are disappearing one by one their homes new owners all white something s going on and sydney s determined to figure it out with her only ally a new white neighbor theo can she trust him or his part of the problem as is common with thrillers the ending was rushed and the last dramatic scene a little too dramatic but overall i i enjoyed the audio version of this novel definitely thought provoking view all my reviews posted by sarah at smallworld at 5 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels thriller older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome to smallworld reads view my complete profile sarah s to read book montage share book reviews and ratings with sarah and even join a book club on goodreads smallworld reads yearly reviews 2019 books read and top 10 2017 books read and reviewed sorta 2014 books read and reviewed 2013 books read and reviewed 2012 books read and reviewed 2011 books read and reviewed 2010 books read and reviewed 2009 books read and reviewed 2008 books read and reviewed 2007 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