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Will You Miss Me?
When I am long in my eternal repose
Will you still miss me?
When the leaves dash against your window, unaccountably
Will you pause?
When the clouds blanket the sun, though a shadow passes over
Will you wonder?
When a cold spot lingers near your bed in the heat of summer
Will you shiver, just a bit?
When a favorite book flutters from my desk to the floor
Will you simply turn away?
When from the corner of your eye, you glimpse a movement
Will you deny, it might have been I?
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Hunting and Gathering in America — Wine and Cheese (Doodles)
Over the past few days I’ve watched several Trump surrogates attempt to deflect questions from women, young girls, and reporters about the recent allegations against Donald Trump. Mike Pence, when given a question asked by an eleven year-old girl who felt disheartened by Trump’s language, switched to a conversation about foreign policy. Ben Carson, when […]
via Hunting and Gathering in America — Wine and Cheese (Doodles)
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We Will Never Forget!
AND ALL THE VICTIMS OF TERRORISM WORLDWIDE
Shared via Remembering 9/11 and All the Victims of Terrorism WorldWide… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog
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It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover
This novel grabs you and sweeps you into a story of love, lust and betrayal. At turns comic and tragic, It Ends With Us explores abuse from those who are supposed to protect and love us and those we fall in love with.
Lily Bloom is fresh out of college when she meets a young doctor who is just finishing his residency. And even though there is an immediate attraction, they both go their own ways. He’s not interested in a serious relationship, ever, he insists and she’s busy starting her own business.
Eventually Ryle and Lily meet again, both having never forgotten each other. They fall in madly love and marry.
But a young man from Lily’s youth, her first love, enters the picture. Atlas was a homeless high school student. Lily helped him survive while at the same time doing her best to prevent her father from being abusive to her mother. Lily’s father had been abusive to her mother for years. Atlas was her best friend and she leaned on him to help get her through the heartache of watching the continued abuse of her mother.
Years later, Lily and Atlas reconnect as friends and nothing more, as they both have a profound and deep respect for the other.
Lily is in love with her husband, she trusts him and respects him. The first time he strikes her, it’s deemed a mistake, he didn’t mean to and he’s sorry. He loves her and does everything he can to make up for his actions. At first, Lily blames herself, just as her mother did. But is she strong enough to stop it? Or will she endure it, making excuses, just as her mother did. When Ryle sees Lily and Atlas innocently talking it sets into motion a series of events that will shatter their marriage.
Domestic abuse is insidious, the abuser often excuses his actions by shifting the blame to his wife, or girlfriend. This enthralling novel explores how the abuser and his victim unwittingly conspire though co-dependency, and how the abuse can dangerously escalate.
I highly recommend this exceptionally well written novel. I couldn’t put it down.
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Dark Matter
Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch, is a mind-boggling foray into the world of Multi-Verses. This novel is exciting and terrifying by turns, and it gives rise to questions of our universe. Jason Dessen is a college professor of physics in Chicago, and husband to the beautiful artist, Daniela and a father to their son, Charlie. His life is picture perfect and he’s happy, except there are the times when he wonders what turn his life would have taken if he’d stayed with his research instead of marrying and having a child. One night he goes to meet a colleague who has won a great scientific prize, the one he should have won. That’s when improbablity meets probability.
This novel is based on the idea that our lives are a matter of random choices with equally random outcomes, but with far reaching consquences. What if we’d taken another path, instead of the one we are on? What if another version of Jason Dessen, the one who didn’t marry, who did the research that enabled him to change his destiny,decided he wanted the other Jason’s life?
This fictional account is well written and researched. It poses many questions about our universe. It’s a great read!
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The Murder of the Groveland Boys
In the deep south during the Civil Rights movement, Citrus Barons ruled Florida and got rich on the backs of cheap Negro labor instituted by the Jim Crow laws. The KKK was a powerful and deadly force.
This was a dire time for negroes in the south, many were held in peonage-forced labor-by the rich Citrus Barons. Local law enforcement fully supported this practice. In 1949 a young woman falsely cried rape and the hunt for four negro boys ensued by Sheriff Willis V McCall who ruled Lake County, Florida with an iron hand. McCall was a violent sheriff and a KKK member. Many negro homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds of negro men and boys fled to the swamps where they were chased down. The lynching of negroes was a common practice of the times. Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights activist, a prominent lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice became involved. His life was threatened and one of his law clerks was murdered during the investigation.
This is book, based on factual evidence and court proceedings, is a stunning look at race relations and law enforcement of the deep south.
I highly recommend this Pulitzer Prize winning book. It is an in depth look at racism at its worse. These were not the good old days, these were very dark days for America. As we are held in thrall by current events, we are reminded of how deep seated prejudices scar our nation. We must never again allow political demagoguery and bigotry to worm its way into our public consciousness.
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A Must Read
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail 5 Stars!
This is a gut wrenching memoir of a young women’s search for meaning and self discovery. It is without a doubt the best memoir I’ve ever read. Cheryl’s voice is so real; her honesty is profound. After reading it I was obsessed for days about hiking and I almost bought a pair of trail boots… Every emotion known to humans comes through her words in exquisite detail…a wonder of a novel!
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HATE HAS NO MEASURE
Hate has no measure. Hate is beyond measure. Hate is evil in every sense of the word. Hate will never drench the flame of Love. For it is love, it is love, it is love, it is love, it is love, it is love a million times over that will conquer hate.
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Suspenseful, Fast Paced
The Illuminate Files is a fast paced and exciting science fiction story told almost exclusively in interviews, texts and by a slightly deranged Artificial Intelligence. 
Kady Grant and Ezra Mason are to teens living off world in an isolated planet in the far future. When their mining planet gets blasted not only with devastating bombs, but a horrible virus that causes the infected to become killer zombies, these two must find a way to save everyone on the rescue star ships.
And so begins this convoluted story that just keeps you turning the pages with twist after twist. Kady Grant is one kick @** heroine with steel for nerves. All of the swear words are redacted, so anyone can read this novel. The schematics of the starships and battleships are fantastic.
Great dialogue and wonderful writing makes this novel a must read! The sequel is due out in September. :o)
Kathy Lauren Miller 