• Book Review: The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins

    Book Review: The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins

    Despite having grown up interested in the Great Depression and World War II eras, I never did much research on Franklin Roosevelt as a person. I came across this book secondhand around the time I read Becoming Madam Secretary (a fictionalized account of Frances Perkins’ life), and I thought it would be fascinating to read about FDR…

  • Book Review: A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn

    Book Review: A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn

    I chose this book as my Book of the Month pick last December but never got around to it. I’ve been looking forward to picking it up all year. At first, I felt like the wait was worth it, but approaching the second half of the book, I started to retreat…

  • Book Review: Good Spirits by B.K. Borrison

    Book Review: Good Spirits by B.K. Borrison

    I will never grow tired of A Christmas Carol retellings. I don’t know if I would necessarily consider Good Spirits a complete retelling given the major shift in dynamics, but the concept is there, and it feels fresh…

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