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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

February 23, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

I loved each of these finely drawn, often heart breaking vignettes of Black women. When we think of secret lives, we often think of sex – and there’s plenty of that in this book, but as in life, sex means so much more for each of these women. There’s a daughter, stealing moments of pleasure with a married man in a hospice parking lot while their mothers are inside. There’s a daughter, learning how to take crumbs and make them into a whole damn pie. […]

https://cannonballread.com/2022/02/the-secret-lives-of-church-ladies-booktrovert/

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Deesha Philyaw

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Deesha Philyaw ·
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Mixed Bag of Mixed Bags

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

Steel and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert Heinlein

V2 by Robert Harris

June 2, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Wordy Shipmates – 4/5 Stars I wonder how many people know that if you’re from parts of the country, you’re basically not taught about the Puritans at all. You get the same kind of education that Sarah Vowell talks about early in this book with discussions about “the first Thanksgiving” and plenty of other oblique, but not entirely in depth look into the early colonialization of New England. In the South, you’re mostly taught about Jamestown, or your own respective colony (if you had […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Deesha Philyaw, Richard Matheson, Roald Dahl, Robert Harris, Robert Heinlein, Sarah Vowell

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:247 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Deesha Philyaw, Richard Matheson, Roald Dahl, Robert Harris, Robert Heinlein, Sarah Vowell ·
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