Bits and pieces from our little corner of Texas.
This is certainly a worthwhile read/listen for anyone who likes memoirs, but I’d also recommend it to folks who enjoy adventure stories or books about plucky ladies who make their own way, even if you’d usually pick novels over nonfiction.
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This is a great book if you’re a fan of rural slice-of-life stories, or if you’re in need of some good old-fashioned wholesomeness — and who isn’t, these days?
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I confess that I still prefer the silver screen version performed by Humphrey Bogart.
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I’m glad I got a chance to read it. There are a couple of caveats, though, that would make me hesitate to recommend reading it to everybody.
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This is a horror story, made all the worse because it was real.
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Ultimately, I’m glad I read it and got the chance to learn a bit more about this remarkable person as well as the history of our country. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the story of race relations in Jim Crow America.
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It’s hard to describe the cognitive dissonance I felt when I had to take a break from a particularly depressing description of Kristallnacht, so I switched to NPR – only to find myself listening to a report on the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting.
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I already knew the basic storyline, and that it was one of the earliest popular science fiction stories ever published. But it’s not just a Victorian version of what we now think of as “portal” fiction.
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All in all, I’m glad I read it (well, listened to it, but I think it still counts as reading), but I can’t say it’ll ever be a real favorite.
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