Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Nevermore: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Ride of Her Life, Desert Rose

 Nevermore 5/13/25

Reported by Rita

 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

This 1969 autobiography captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right.

The audiobook read by Maya Angelou is phenomenal! While parts of her story are painful to hear, her words and voice are powerful.   - HM    5 stars

 

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean.

It was amazing the amount of help she received from strangers along the way. A really interesting story.     - MH     4 stars

 

Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley

Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.

Filled with moving photos and stories. Worth reading.    AH   - 5 stars

 

Other Books Mentioned:

 

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer

Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sunpath by Michael Maryk

Cats of the World by Hannah Renâe Shaw

The Easiest Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Seniors by Mary Ellsworth

Ellis Island & Other Stories by Mark Helprin

Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were by Donald S. Johnson

The Cartographers: A Novel by Peng Shepherd

My Name is Eva by Suzanne Goldring

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jesse Q Sutanto

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, an Englishman's World by Robert Lacey

 

New Books:

 

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism by Jessica Roux

TVA Photography, 1963-2008: Challenges and Changes in the Tennessee Valley by Patricia Bernard Ezzell

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