Monthly Archives: June 2020


Splendid and Vile
Readers who love history will enjoy this up close biography of Churchill. However, the book felt long at points to me as it tried to give a very detailed picture of what was happening. Although, living during the bombings on London would have felt like a long time. It’s still hard to imagine sometimes that a major city was bombed night after night for more than a year.

The Splendid and The Vile by Erik Larson





The Zookeeper's Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife focuses on Antonina view of what happens during the years when the zoo is affected by the war. It’s a non-fiction book, so it relies on several people’s journals and is told in chronological order. There are facets of this WWII book that aren’t focused on in a lot of WWII books – what happened to the animals, how some people “hid” using language and hair dye and about the Polish uprising.

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman


The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek 2
Cussy Carter has very few loves in her life – her father and her books. It’s not her love of learning that makes her an outcast in her Kentucky community, though. Her skin color sets her apart with its blue tint. She is often treated worse than the “coloreds” in their area as no one understands why her and her father are blue.

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson