Screaming into the void. I manage a Food Pantry in Dumfries, VA and can't get through a day without being emotionally overwhelmed by the desperate need. Everything's more raw now as we pinball from one new cruel policy to the next. If you can, please donate to your local food pantry. We are hurting.

💙📚Sharing a simple idea with profound impact "The Serviceberry" by Robin Wall Kimmerer explores gift economy as it exists in the natural world in contrast to consumer capitalism. The concept to be content with enough and share overabundance warms my heart. Lovely read.

💙📚 Left gobsmacked by Florence Knapp's "The Name." Three timelines follow one family over 35 years each based upon the name Cora bestows upon her son. At the center of each timeline is the far reaching effect domestic violence has on the family. An amazing read!

I really wanted to love "Time of the Child" by Niall Williams. Beautifully written prose, colorful characters, set in a small small Irish town, with many a delightful turn of a phrase. Hard as I tried though I just could not get into it. Maybe it is more of a cozy winter read than a summer read. 💙📚

I admit I delayed borrowing "Godkiller" by Hannah Kaner more than a few times in Libby. Turned out to be a fun read. Think "Last of Us" only instead of the infected protagonists are battling knights, demons, and gods. 💙📚

"The Wedding People" began as a slow burn for me but I am really glad I stuck with it. I grew very fond of all the characters in it and at the predictable end wished them nothing but the best. 📚💙

"Raising Hare: A Memoir" by Chloe Dalton (illustrations by Denise Nestor) was a lovely, sweet, and gentle read. We follow along as the author takes in a days old leveret raising it to adulthood. I'd never heard the word leveret before but now will always associate it with peace and a quiet grace. 📚💙

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📚💙 Blown away by "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" by Bob the Drag Queen.
Harriet Tubman arrives in modern times and hires a producer to help her and four enslaved people she led to freedom create a hip hop album and concert to tell their stories of strength, faith, and resilience.

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Enthusiastically recommend "The Bright Sword" to anyone who is as besotted with the Arthurian Legend as me. Loved the fresh take and the modern tone. It's long, took me two borrows through Libby, but thoroughly engaging in a can't put down way.

Absolutely loved this escapist gem of a book. Full of wonderful characters and remarkable animals it was a sweet vacation in Tuscany of a book. 📚💙

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