I'm pleased to welcome to by blog M.M. Holaday, author of The Open Road, to be published this week by Five Star, a division of Cengage Learning. M.M.Holaday (Nan to her friends) is a former reference and rare book librarian, and The Open Road is her debut work of fiction. The Open Road is a …
Category: race relations
Best Westerns
The Open Road by M.M. Holaday [I am grateful to the author for sending me an advance reading copy of her novel, to be published at the beginning of April] ‘ “It’s so big out there, it’s like the ocean. The sky is huge and the land goes on forever. You’ve got to see it …
A Valued Opinion
A few days ago, I wrote a short review of Harper Lee's novel Go Set A Watchman. Before reading the book and writing the review, I had made a determined effort not to read what others were saying about it. Having caught some of the press headlines, and noting their negativity, I feared that if …
Go Set A Watchman
by Harper Lee A Review 'It had never occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless pummeling activity . . . she must now go into a world of femininity, a world she despised.' On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama refused …
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