This week's selections:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
A set of twins grow up in a small Southern town in Louisiana. The residents are all Black, but pride themselves for being light-skinned. The girls escaped to New Orleans, but after a time, they separated and didn't speak to one another again. One girl married the darkest Black man she could find and the other girl lives a different life, passing for white. It was very good.
Alabama, Again by Susan Sands
Disgraced chef Cammie Laroux is called back home to Alabama to help her sisters with their mother's recovery from surgery. It might've been a good respite from her troubles, until she learns that the ex-boyfriend who stomped on her heart all those years ago is renovating her childhood home. For a beach read, it had a bit more complexity than expected. It was good.
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
This book is a memoir of Bolton's time as a member of the Trump Administration. It was short-lived, but his book felt like an eternity. It was as if every paragraph was a run-on sentence full of high opinions of himself and low opinions of just about everybody else. I just couldn't finish this book; so, I didn't.
What are you reading?
MK out.
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