Sarah Anne Carter

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Radium Girls — If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. I thought this book was about something else, but I am so glad I read […]

Online Book Club: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Non-Fiction Online Book Club on November 29, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Skipping Christmas — Skipping Christmas by John Grisham I love reading Christmas stories in December. It puts me in the holiday mood all month long. I found Skipping Christmas at a library book sale and thought that a Christmas book by John Grisham has to be good. I thought this would be a fun […]

Online Book Club December Announcement (Skipping Christmas by John Grisham)

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged holiday Non-Fiction on November 15, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“From history we learn that sooner is not necessarily better than later … that what we don’t know can often hurt us and badly … and that there is no such thing as a self-made man or woman.” David McCullough is a well-known author in history circles. He has written […]

The American Spirit by David McCullough

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on November 10, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Hidden Figures — “Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.” In a time when bathrooms were still segregated in America, African-American women were making strides as […]

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 30, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Economics in One Lesson — “Economics … is a science of recognizing secondary consequences. It is also a science of seeing general consequences.” In 1946, Henry Hazlitt wrote a book that will be used for decades upon decades – Economics in One Lesson. Simplifying economics into one lesson made a book that is easy to […]

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 23, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Radium Girls — The Radium Girls by Kate Moore After visiting the Trinity site in New Mexico, I’ve been fascinated by the stories behind the people who work to create the first nuclear bomb. Many didn’t even know what they were working on, but only knew their one small part. The Radium Girls is […]

Online Book Club November Announcement (The Radium Girls by Kate ...

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 11, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Rita's Story — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Looking back now, I can see that all of this was God, gently, gradually, separating me unto Himself, preparing me for the life to which he had called me, and which I so wanted.” Miracles do still happen. Rita Klaus experienced one by just asking. She grew […]

Rita’s Story by Rita Klaus

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Biographical Non-Fiction on October 9, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Dreamland — “One way to view all that had happened was as some enormous experiment to see how many Americans had the propensity for addiction.” Dreamland is an important book. Today, in America, there is an opiate epidemic. People are using, overdosing and dying. Families are broken. The foster care system is […]

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam ...

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 2, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Hillbilly Elegy — “The truth is hard, and the hardest truths for hill people are the ones they must tell about themselves.” Some people have the deck stacked against them their whole lives. Some manage to find a way to rise above it all. J.D. was born to a mom who could never […]

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on September 15, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

Killing the Rising Sun — “… It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful.” -President Harry S. Truman The question of whether or not America should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan in World War II has long and often been debated. It did […]

Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on September 12, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter