What Fiction are you reading this week, October 17, 2021?

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10. Thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. Love that little library mug!

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Finally finished reading Honoree Fanonne Jeffers' book, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, and highly recommend it. It is quite an epic read, chock full of (true) Georgia history. Although I grew up in Georgia, I never studied GA history in school because we were living in Utah when I took state history. I loved the writing style used by this author but there were so many characters that I wish I had started a family tree when I began reading.

After reading a post in the Feminists Group by Texastowlie, I downloaded My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113913833

Praise for My First Thirty Years:
"For almost a century in Texas literary circles, Gertrude Beasley's 1925 memoir has been more a legend than a book... The tangled history of My First Thirty Years, and Beasley's horrific personal fate, are case studies in society's merciless treatment of women of her era who gave voice to socially unspeakable truths. The memoir's republication this month, which makes it widely available for the first time in 96 years, is a long-overdue moment of reckoning. It's also a rich gift to the Texas literary canon."―Texas Monthly

https://smile.amazon.com/My-First-Thirty-Years-Memoir/dp/1728242886/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=My+first+thirty+years&qid=1634482743&s=books&sr=1-1