By Nancy Marshall, the PR Maven. I was recently on the PR Maven Podcast (Episode 63) and true to Nancy’s love of networking and generosity, she sent me this book after our podcast as a thank you. I devoured it in short time. It is filled with tips and practical advice on how to take […]
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery
I just finished reading Grandma Gatewood’s Walk about a 67 year old grandmother who was the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. I love the outdoors and have walked 1800+ miles of the Pacific Crest Trail and pieces of the AT but was blown away and inspired at the same time with this woman […]
A Widow for One Year. By John Irving
This is my second John Irving book in 2019…there was a sale at a bookstore. The author is an edgy guy and not afraid to write about sex 🙂 Not dirty sex or porn, just the struggles of sex and the complications of it at times. One of the two main characters is a 16 […]
White Fragility. By Robin Diangelo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. By Robin Diangelo I grew up outside of Detroit Michigan and was 11 years old when the riots happened and I have worked hard to question my view on race over the years. Living in Maine where 95% of the people identify […]
Underground Railroad. By Colson Whitehead
Very provocative book. At times it was hard to come to grips with the savagery of slavery. The cruelty. The idea that people were property. I had a hard time with moving from the truth of the slavery story and the fiction of his underground railroad as being real. I had a hard time getting […]
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Yes, I just read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852. I had never read it before and while reading David McCullough’s book The Pioneers, he referenced that as Ohio was being developed (then called the Northwest Territories), they wrote their constitution to include that they would be slave-free state and he mentioned that Uncle Tom’s Cabin […]