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It’s Feb 1st, which means it is the beginning of Black History Month. The current administration wants to get rid of anything having to do with DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion). I plan on doing as much as I can to make sure it stays. I hope you will, too. I have made myself a goal to learn at least one new thing every day for Black History Month. Hopefully continue on with this for the rest of…

Daily writing promptDo you need a break? From what?View all responses from school, from work, from the news.

Daily writing promptWhat colleges have you attended?View all responses Senior year of high school, I only applied to one college. Not the small community college in my hometown that I should have started with, but a bigger university about an hour or so away. I almost dropped out at one point due to some financial issues. Eventually graduated and got to sit beside the same person I sat next to…

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? Singing silly songs. Playing with my kitties. Being goofy with my husband.

Myself. Not believing in myself. Thoughts of failure. Procrastination. Laziness. Taking that first step. Finishing what I started. Daily writing promptWhat are your biggest challenges?View all responses

Farewell, Life’s Library

When I first joined Life’s Library, I thought I was just joining a book club. What I found was a community. A community who not only liked to read and discuss books, but who supported each other during the difficult times and cheered with each other during the good times. We sent money to Haiti and Sierra Leone, and laughed at Paul Farmer’s jokes. Traveled to the center of the earth with…

Recently, I finished reading Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear. This is the current book in Life’s Library, the book club that has come to mean a lot to me, and will soon be taking a new direction which makes me both sad and excited. Sad, for the loss of a book and fun perks arriving on my doorstep every month, and excitement about seeing what the club will look like in the…

June is coming to a close. This month I participated in Battle of the Bookish, reading a total of 6 books. I was unable to complete the readathon, but I did manage to complete all of the prompts for the team challenge. This month’s theme was Decades, and I chose team ’90s. June is also Pride Month. Of the 6 books I read, 4 of them had LGBTQIA themes. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller was the…

The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

So, this is actually a few weeks late, but at the beginning of June I read The Nation Must Awake by Mary E. Jones Parrish. This book is about the Tulsa Race Massacre that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 31- June 1, 1921, when Dick Rowland, a black man, stepped into an elevator and stumbled against a white girl, causing a group of angry white people to loot and set fire to the prosperous…

Thoughts From Behind The Counter

I am a pharmacy technician. I have worked here for almost 7.5 years. The store I work for is part of a retail pharmacy chain, whose name I shall not disclose due to privacy reasons. Since I know that there are some people who think that all we do is “slap a label on it”, I thought I would take the time to share a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes of the pharmacy. When the pharmacy…

Hello again! It’s been awhile since I last updated ya’ll on books I’ve read. My reading has been slow, it feels like. I have a tendency to want to fall asleep after a few pages. Not because the book is boring, but because my body feels old. I’ve read a few books since my last post, so I’m just going to talk about all of them. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of…

Just finished my twelfth book of the year. Not doing any readathons this month, just going for pleasure and trying to bring down my TBR pile. Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan #3) by Kathy Reichs. In this book, Brennan is involved in a case involving a war between biker gangs. But it looks like Detective Andy might be a dirty cop. Also, Brennan’s nephew is staying with her, and gets caught up…

P4A 2021: Say I’m Dead

E. Dolores Johnson’s birth certificate says Negro. She was raised black. But her mother was white. For 36 years, her mother kept her family a secret, until Delores decides to uncover the truth. What she learns is that her black father and white mother fled Indiana in the 1940s, where interracial marriage was illegal. Fearing for their lives, they fled to New York, evading and FBI search that…

P4A Readathon- Death du Jour

Hello, and welcome to another episode of “Amy Reads Books!” Tonight’s post is about Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan #2) by Kathy Reichs. This series is the one that inspired one of my favorite TV shows: Bones. If you are a fan of the show but have not read the books, I just want to put out a disclaimer that the books are not the same as the show. They are good to read, but the only similarities…