2025 book reports
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These past few weeks, I’ve been away as my body has run amok with pain flares, GI symptoms, and exhaustion. However – especially going into winter – there is no way to predict how my illnesses will behave, so it is time to find a way to get back on my writing schedule, regardless. This… Read more
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Y’all, today I am so excited to get to share with you all my dear Cheryl Wray’s new book, Southern College Football Road Trip. First, if you’ve been reading here for any length of time, you know that we are passionate SEC people around here – and we especially love football season. Enter my dear… Read more
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Y’all, we are finally at the end of our original banned books project, with my having finished books #43 and #44. I must say these two were particularly. . . taxing. . . and I am not sad to see them go. Our last two books are William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. I am… Read more
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This Banned Books Friday, y’all, as we are nearing the end of this project, I am grouping together two books that have nothing in common – that we might finish this up next week and get on to our new banned books project I am so excited for. ❤ This week’s books are Richard Wright’s Native… Read more
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Some months ago, our Banned Books Fridays derailed as did our book reporting – and it did so during time when I feel that shouting against book bans and censorship is absolutely imperative as our rights are being threatened on many fronts. (Unfortunately, surgery and sickness prevailed for a bit.) That said, both Banned Book… Read more
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It’s an early Saturday morning in Alabama, “attending” from afar, as we are are blessed to do in this modern era, the funeral mass for Pope Francis. I’m watching the ABC News coverage under the banner, “Celebrating Francis: The People’s Pope” – and he truly was. There have been many things shared this week, stories… Read more
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Sunday afternoon, my better half and I drove to Montgomery for a lovely event with our precious family. From there, we went to a different part of town, visiting my husband’s college on our way to spend time with our dear cousins we don’t get to see often enough at all. As we were driving,… Read more
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I’ve been planning to return to Friday book reports this spring and summer – and there is no better way to start than celebrating the 100th anniversary of the release of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on April 10th. The language of Gatsby has my heart forever – and if you haven’t seen Baz… Read more
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Dearly beloved, until today, I was unaware of National Word Nerd Day – however, it has delightfully come to my attention now and we simply must observe it here at the Autoimmune Hippie, home of one seriously geeky little word nerd – and her baby word nerd chiweenie too. 😂 We also have a gnarly… Read more
