by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 15, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Joan Ruth Bader was born on March 15, 1933. There were so many girls named Joan in her kindergarten class that her mother suggested she be called Ruth and that is how she is known for more official purposes. Ruth loved to read and write and was encouraged to be...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 12, 2024 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I was handed a copy of The Contemplative Tarot A Christian Guide to the Cards by Brittany Muller by my sister,Jamie Holloway. My first thought was that I didn’t want anything to do with tarot. I was raised being told it was wrong. But after hearing her thoughts and...
by Summer D Clemenson | Dec 15, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
We have reached the end of 2023 and it seems a good time reflect on my reading goals and what I learned while reading 7 children’s books each month. Children’s books are special. I learned that old children’s books are often nostalgic and teach classic ideas, where...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 30, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez takes place in 1973 at the beginning of Civil Townsend’s career and in 2016 at the end of her career. Her voice is the narrator as she tells the story to her adopted daughter, Anne, as to why she did things the way she did...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 29, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a very special book and I am glad I read it. I had seen the movie before and I really enjoyed it but, as always I enjoyed the book more. This amazing story, mainly takes place in the summer of 1964 when Lily Owen turns 14...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 27, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
November has come and almost gone and one thing I am very thankful for is that I came from a family that loved to read and that love was shared with me. Reading has helped me to learn. Reading has been a favorite way to spend my time learning or traveling and...
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 20, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Prayers & Thanksgiving
Strength for Each Day: 365 Devotions to Make Every Day a Great Day by Joyce Meyer My rating: 5 of 5 stars The last year or so has had its own challenges, as I am sure every year has but this book, Strength For Each Day 365 Devotions to Make Every Day a Great Day by...
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 30, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Happy October everyone. I hope you are enjoying the change of the season and that you don’t have too many aches and pains as the weather gets colder and wetter. Thankfully, I hear that it is supposed to dry for Halloween for the trick-or-treaters! Maybe after the kids...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 20, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Hi everyone! I bet you have been waiting impatiently for this post: 7 Books for September 2023 is full of great books and most of them, I randomly pulled off a shelf with little idea what I was bringing home. I tell you what, that is an adventure in itself. I hope you...
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 9, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Last month I began the task of reading 7 children’s books to review each month. I have ended up really enjoying wandering the children’s section at the library, randomly picking up books off the shelves, if I hadn’t already asked them to pull a few...
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 1, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews
I found this book in the bottom of a box of books my sister gave me and it looked like it had seen some hard living with have the cover ripped off. I didn’t expect to enjoy this book. I am not sure why. I think I just expect to only like certain kinds of books and I...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 28, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews
Although I began writing poetry when I was 9 years old, I do not generally enjoy reading poetry. I know that probably sounds terrible but I really tried to enjoy this book. Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird is a book of poetry that is obviously about her...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 27, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions, Queer Community
I got the first book in this review from a box of books from my sister, but before I could publish it I read an article that suggested that grown up should read children’s books and it inspired me to actually do that and so, until I get bored, I plan to find 7 books...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 10, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions, Prayers & Thanksgiving
When you are a Christian or any other religion where you have a Creator, prayer is probably the most important part of your belief system, or at least it should be. That is, at least what I think. I got this book from a box of of books from my sister and it was a...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 7, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
The Florence Legacy by Lauraine Snelling came to me in a bag of books that I have been working on for over a year as I also worked on other piles of books from my own collection and library books. I tend to be attracted to intense reads that require at least a few...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 6, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
Being a person that does not believe in parties but people, I was grateful to one of my wife, Karen G Clemenson’s, clients that suggested that I look up Nikki R. Haley when I was voicing my dissatisfaction with our current president. With All Due Respect Defending...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 22, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews
My sister, Jamie Holloway, has figured out how to get people to mail her books to read for her opinion and when she is done with them, I often am the recipient of bags of books to read. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon was one of those books in a bag full of books...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jun 10, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I was wandering mindlessly through the Longview Public Library with a friend when I found this book. I didn’t need another book to read; I have tons of books on my To Read pile but You Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston called to me. This is only the second...
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 4, 2023 | Book & Product Reviews, Opinions
I wasn’t looking for Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood, I won it as a givaway on GoodReads. But I needed the vacation it took me on. I am intense person. I don’t choose easy books to read. The last few books I have read took a lot of attention and mind power to absorb. I...
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