Uncategorized No Reaction to a Dead Body 15 Mar 201910 Mar 2019 I read Far from the Madding Crowd and was excited to watch the recent remake to compare it to what I imagined...... and was ridiculously disappointed! This is a second…
Book Reviews Bathsheba is the Gorgeous One? 5 Mar 20192 Mar 2019 Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Every time the main character's radiant beauty was described I pictured a resilient, independent, hardworking woman that took over the farm instead…
Book Reviews Pulitzer Prize on Small Town Connections 3 Mar 2019 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Reviewed by The Oprah Magazine & winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this novel from 2008 can be summed up as a stroll through the boring…
Book Reviews Continued Racism (Bluebird, Bluebird) 26 Feb 2019 A black Texas Ranger is a very rare thing to see in East Texas according to this story; the classic star badge brings about trouble for a man looking to…
Book Reviews The [Surprising!] Surrogate 22 Feb 201917 Feb 2019 Surrogacy would have been a ludicrous solution centuries ago and of course there are groups against the practice today for varied reasons. However it is becoming more acceptable since being…
Book Reviews Where’d Ya Go, Bernadette? 19 Feb 201917 Feb 2019 Quirky and dynamic! Movie will be released in August 2019! The author, Maria Semple, wrote for popular TV shows Arrested Development and Mad About You - this book carries the…
Book Reviews… Naked, Drunk and Writing 18 Feb 201917 Feb 2019 I love this title for being blunt and relatable. Must admit I start a good number of my poems while "in the cups"! This book can serve as a great…
Book Reviews One Thousand White Women 17 Feb 2019 This one is about the US Government making a deal with the Cheyenne tribe to provide 1,000 white women as wives/baby-makers to assist with assimilating native Americans into the white…
Uncategorized Belittled Bookshelf 15 Feb 2019 I fall into the common mistake most bookworms have - rushing home on adrenaline with a bag full of new books from the library's book sale, aligning them on the…
Book Reviews Happiness =Self Assessments 13 Feb 201914 Feb 2019 The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha I encouraged a friend to read this book with me (if you've read my previous post…
Back Row Thoughts ~Clarice von Chimo 