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May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 6

One of the best books on the subject of FDR and Eleanor, and one of my favorite books. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
May Book Challenge (catching up) - Day 15
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Fictional view of the "Monkey Trial" - John Scopes put on trial for teaching Evolution.
May 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 8
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Speaking of the Devil . . . True account of an early case taken by Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights matter in mid-20th-century Florida.

Yes, I read a lot of nonfiction. I write it, too.
May 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 4

History, poetry, and reflections by one of Florida's greatest governors. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #LeRoyCollins
May 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 3

Two mysterious and unidentified artist's sketchbooks change the lives of two women. Written by my late cousin, an art historian and curator. #fiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 2

One of my favorite books of all time. The curator of The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, pursues a fabulous objet d'art into a James Bond-like adventure. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 5

A New York Times reporter goes home to Birmingham, examines a horrific past event, and makes a stunning discovery. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 7
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The Devil in the White City -- a true tale of an early serial killer, and he was a doozy.
May 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 10

Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: the People and Their Homes
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Fascinating look at life in Spanish Colonial Florida.
May 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
May Book Challenge (catching up) Day 13
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Best book-to-play performance, theater-in-the-round, Hippodrome Theater, Gainesville, Florida. Excellent book, too, of course, about a time and place that was everywhere and everywhen.
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 11

Jerks in Florida History -- bad actors get their stories told as an author speaks ill of the dead, the ill that they created.
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May 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 9
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World War II: young Navy lieutenant John F. Kennedy ends up on FDR's staff, and he must stop an assassination attempt.
May 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 1

Rommel and the Rebel -- the German combat general and the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest. #alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
May Book Challenge (catching up) - Day 14
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Justice in the Old West? Not so different from the New East, or anywhere else in too many places at too many times.
May 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
May Book Challenge (catching up) -- Day 12

The Great Migration was the influx of emigrants from England to colonial Massachusetts between 1620 and 1640. I have ancestors listed therein, with brief biographies.
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May 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM