- Who’s shocked that out of all his books there is no record of Jefferson ever owning the best seller, Vindication of the Rights of Women?
- Martha Jefferson gets so frustrated with her little sister Maria that she wonders if she sustained brain damage during some illness. I’m with you there, girl. She’s a hot mess.
- I’m sad for Martha because she would have been a brilliant politician but she got married off in backwoods Virginia because she was woman.
- I can’t stand Maria because of her emotional manipulations and her distain for all the opportunities that she had to see the world and learn things. All she wanted was to be a wife in Virginia so I guess why should she have wasted to childhood learning things? Both women ended up in the same place no matter what their education and desires were.
- I was just getting to the part about his enslaved daughter when the audiobook was returned to the library automatically! I’m going to have to get back to this one later….
- Â Ugh, I so hate the whole alpha-male schtick.
- Can we get rid of “You’re mine!” from the vocabulary of men in romance books? Likewise with him having to have her or possess her.
- No means no, jackass. If she says “Don’t touch me”, your immediate response shouldn’t be to touch her again.
- I read Eloisa James’ nonfiction before I knew she was a romance writer. I liked that better.
- It is a shame because I’m interested in where the story goes with other characters because she makes up good characters but if they are all icky like this one, I don’t want to read them.
Avignon of the Popes: City of Exiles by Edwin Mullins
- I love reading ecclesiastical history but it infuriates me. How anyone can know this stuff and still go to a church is beyond me. It is just corruption on top of corruption from the beginning.
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes and Racism in America’s Law Enforcement and the Search for Change by Matthew Horace
- My new audiobook since Jefferson’s Daughters ran away on me.Â
- Written by a veteran African-American police officer who interviewed cops and victims all over the country
- Very good discussions about what leads to riots
- Talks about his own treatment at the hands of cops who don’t know he is also a cop
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
- Why do I do this to myself?
Ok, I need a little bit more on Woodward’s book please. I know I need to read it even though I, too, will wonder why I am doing this to myself.