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The not so distant past

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery with Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley

The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

August 16, 2019 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

My mother used to watch Lifetime movies (back in the ’90s when they were about battered women and mother’s whose children had drug problems) to remind herself that no matter how bad her day was it could easily be worse. Here are two books to remind you that life isn’t that bad … while also sort of scaring you because- holy shit if 2020 is just 2016: the remix then maybe the below stories aren’t that far in the past and God forbid history repeats […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Heather Morris, Lynda Blackmon Lowery with Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:84 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Heather Morris, Lynda Blackmon Lowery with Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March ·
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