One of my favorite books is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. It’s very similar to Anne of Green Gables, which I didn’t read until I was a teenager, and Little Women, which I think I first read as an adult. As a child I read Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm over and over. Rebecca may have seemed …
Lois Duncan has been around for a long time. She started publishing short works as a teenager, and her first novel was published in 1959. Daughters of Eve was published in 1979, but I really thought it was older. First, I aged out of YA books in the early 80’s, and secondly, the attitudes presented …
Buy on Amazon Imitation of Life Two-Movie Special Edition Starring Claudette Colbert, Lana Turner, Louise Beavers, Juanita Moore, Warren William Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon Buy on Amazon What was the world trying to tell women in the 30’s, 40’s and …
3 Different Books about Women who fed people for a living, and made it??? Read More »
When I was a kid, most of my books came from the public library. I don’t think I went to a bookstore until I was seven or eight years old, and then the children’s book section was small, unlike the entire room devoted to children at the central library. One of the library books I …
Nilda, a classic of Hispanic-American lit: How an artist can make you see with words Read More »
When I was a kid, most of my books came from the public library. I don’t think I went to a bookstore until I was seven or eight years old, and then the children’s book section was small, unlike the entire room devoted to children at the central library. One of the library books I …
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Buy on Amazon Understood Betsy is another one of those books that I remember finding in a plain, hardback edition in the children’s room of the Chesapeake Public Library. As I recall, I didn’t know anything about the book except its title: I don’t think they kept the dust covers on the books in those …
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