2023 is days from being over and I cannot believe how quickly this year went. I have managed to surpass my reading goal of 125 books and while I read quite a bit, I had more than a few months with no five star reads. When you read as much as I do, it’s hard…
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The Frozen River
Inspired by the real-life diaries of 18th Century midwife Martha Ballard, Ariel Lawhon gives readers just a glance into the life of women in post-Revolution, small town America. Often illiterate and with no prospects other than marrying and having babies, women of the late 18th century were vulnerable and tended to be given sentences (whether…