"THE WOMEN'S MARCH" by Jennifer Chiaverini
Today, we Americans take for granted our right to vote. But this was not always the case - for women. Only white men were allowed to vote for, shall we say, too many years. Chiaverini's historical novel takes us to the year 1913, at the time of Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, when a memorable Women's March on Washington raised awareness but failed to convince those in power. It was not until 1920 that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and the women of our United States of America were finally able to vote. This is history that bears remembering.
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"FINDING THE MOTHER TREE" by Suzanne Simard
This book is the combination of an interesting life story and a scholarly treatise. Simard is a prominent forest ecologist who tells of her life-long search for answers to how trees and other living forest plants have strong connections, with the health of a forest depending on the plants interacting with each other. Her research details how the ages-old "mother trees" protect and nourish the surrounding trees and plants to determine the health of a forest. It's an educational tone with a human touch, including pictures.
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"THE OTHER BLACK GIRL" by Zakiya Dalila Harris
In case you're eager to get away from Ohio farm fields and small town doings, you might want to pick up this book that is all City. Enter the world of a modern-day but still almost-all-white New York publishing house that has just hired their second Black girl. You'll find a world of class privilege and racism, mixed with some psychological manipulations. This contemporary novel brings us an interesting mixture of social commentary, suspense and even a bit of humor.
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"REVELATIONS" by Mary Sharratt
Let's go back to England several centuries ago - to the early 1400's. Into the time of the mystics Julian of Norwich and Hildegard von Bingen. One other mystic of the times was Margery Kempe, upon whose pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela this book is based. A wife and mother of 14 (although they did not all live), she left her family to be a spiritual pilgrim and, in the process, narrowly escaped being burned at the stake. It's quite a story, based on historical documents.
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"THE GOOD SISTER" by Sally Hepworth
This book offers a gentle, family-style "whodunit" with a minimum of characters - all with delightfully quirky personalities. I'd call it "mystery lite." This is a great book to enjoy between heavier reading (in case you're one of the readers that always has your nose in a book). Not having to make a lengthy list of the suspects and just riding with the story will keep the pages flying by. I'm prompted to ask for another of Hepworth's books very soon, maybe even today.
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"THE REASON FOR THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE FORGING OF AMERICAN SCIENCE" by John Tresch
In this tome you will discover anything you ever wanted to know about Edgar Allan Poe, plus a lot that you didn't even know you didn't know. In other words, I was swamped from Page One. This scholarly book tells of Poe's obsession with the new scientific discoveries of his day. Many of his poems and their meanings are discussed at length. But Poe's short life was punctured with bouts of drunkenness and perpetual scrounging for a living. This book is definitely not a walk in the park.
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