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On my blog today I‘ve listed my top authors over the past years of reading with my YA book group. One of them is Mildred Taylor, who was honoured today by the ALA with the Children‘s Literature Legacy Award. I‘ve also included my criteria for choosing these authors, in case you are curious.

https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2021/01/30th-anniversary-of-my-ya-book-group.ht...

I wanted to like this book so much. Her writing style is smooth and vivid. Taylor's book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is one of my childhood books I remember among the hundreds I read, but I just couldn't get excited to read. It felt disjointed & all over the place. As a history teacher, the Civil Rights movement is a fave to study & I liked that point of view, but that was it. This story disappointed & bored me most of the time.

From their farmland in Mississippi to Ohio to California and Massachusetts, members of the Logan family move across the USA. Cassie Logan, star of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry & other books, is 19 in the early 1940s at the start of this final book in the series. Through the decades, we follow Cassie & her tight-knit family‘s experiences in the Great Migration, voter & civil rights activism & the issue of interracial marriage. #audiobook #ownvoices

Am I alone in getting a thrill when a novel teaches me trivia? In this case, it‘s that people cleaned wallpaper in the mid-twentieth century with “cleansing putty.” I found an example of the product online.

Six hours in, this audiobook took a sudden swerve into Jane Eyre territory. Didn‘t see that coming.

#audiomending : I was annoyed that this rip in my jeans got larger whenever I caught my foot while putting them on. They are wearing thin but they‘re my only pair of blue jeans and I want them to last a little longer.