Once again, Rockstar Book Tours is back at it. This time with a surprising time capsule, taking us all the way back to the Roaring 20's. Before we get into the book, we need some definitions. First, let's define swears. Second. Define nice. Then remember that this book was printed 90 years ago, so it [...]
"I could do anything the boys could do. Usually better." Westlake Girl tells the story of Freida Wampler. Growing up in the early 1900's in a small village on the coast, Frieda loved spending endless hours in the water, both on and in. She learned to sail at a young age and was an effortless [...]
"For a family who knew so much - whose faith was so deep, love so abiding, and minds filled with mottos designed to keep us focused on the possibilities that were surely ahead - we knew nothing that could have prepared us for that kind of loss." Rethinking possible is listed as a memoir. A [...]
"There's nothing better than welcoming your husband home from war -- nothing except welcoming your sons." Army Wife is the perfect name for this memoir describing how being married to a soldier really is. Her voice really shines through in this telling memoir, and she strikes me a very fun and sassy woman. That spark [...]
"During the height of the civil rights movement, my family moved to a small, all-black town in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where my father opened a clinic and mother Aura Kruger, taught English at the local high school." This book is a memoir, written by the youngest daughter Jo, but mainly told through [...]
"As adults, most of us have forgotten how to be silly. The first rule of going outside our comfort zone is learning to laugh at ourselves." Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares is a novel in which one woman, Sherry Stanfa-Stanley, undertakes a year of pushing her limits in order to [...]
Most everyone I know grew up watching soap operas. At least, they watched them in the way we watch what our mothers, and aunts, and grandmothers watched. Reluctantly since if we didn't, we wouldn't watch anything at all. So, willingly or unwillingly, we all knew the plots. My mother watched All My Children religiously. She [...]
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