Well, I'm back.
Hi. Again. You know how sometimes you start a blog because your freelance career, and your full-time painting job, and you volunteer leadership position with a storefront theatre company, and being a Company Member with two other theatre companies, and having a social life just don't seem like enough so you think "sure, why not, let's set lofty book reading and blogging goals"? Then you start a blog and let it fade to the background of your life. Then you restart it AND THEN
A book for these times.
A short review because this book is a must-read, but it doesn't feature a strong female fictional character. It's an auto-biography of a strong female person and the subject matter is too important not to talk about.
Carolyn Maull McKinstry was attending the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church when a bomb went off inside on September 15, 1963. Four of her friends were killed in the event and this book is her testimony of the times. It covers race relations through the Civil Ri
For my Non-Fiction Friends
Admittedly, this is called the "Better Characters Blog" and non-fiction doesn't so much have characters as it has...real people. And while an argument can be made that written history can distort the realities of these people in a way that makes them seem character-like ("Let them eat cake!"), to delve into the non-fiction genre seems to go against the core of this blog. Well, too bad. My blog, my rules and when I say I read everything under the sun, I mean it. I'll counter m
