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Reading into 2025 with Tennessee writers and topics • Tennessee Lookout

If I have a brain bug during the holiday season, it’s the song “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”

I confess to eating too many dark chocolate, followed by Cheez-Its, running away to the college football playoff drama. Also, my husband Larry and I share a list with kids of my favorite books I read the previous year, so I will share book recommendations as I start the new year. On topics including Tennessee writers and civil rights and gender.

First, you’ll want to get a copy of these books from Tennessee authors right away. Because they could potentially be banned in a council that is banned at any time. , Nashville scene columnist Betsy Phillips and “That’s what you do: The Fall and Rise of Nashville’s First Female Mayor,” former Megan Barry, who served as Nashville mayor from 2015 to 2018. by.

“James” by Percival Everett is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. The award-winning author, this time through the eyes of a slave man Jim, describes “Huckleberry Finn” as Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” This is a powerful book, with a graphic explanation of slavery being with the reader. “James” is worthy of all book awards, and if you own a copy that is the first edition, its financial value will rise, so stick to it.

It quickly bouncing to CJ Wray’s “The Pexitements” as two British sisters featured in the late 90s, respected during the current period of France due to their courage during World War II.

Ariel Lawhon’s “The Frozen River” was a 2023 pick from the Good Morning America Book Club, and I’ve just read it recently. Lohon, who lives in Tennessee, has written several historical fiction books based on real people, and this time her story focuses on Maine midwife Martha Ballard in the late 1700s. I’m guessing it.

gWe quickly take a copy of Nashville author Betsy Phillips’ book, “Dynamite Nashville: Masking of Bombers Uncontrollable the FBI, KKK and Bombers.”

The woman took her life at birth, but imagined doing so without a phone call or modern transport. In Rohon’s narration, Ballard must respond to a strange death and decide whether it is a murder. Everything is tied together with this harsh story of women being able to be treated unfairly. I thought things have really changed for women about how we are treated under the law. Wearing the #AngryGrandMother hat, I’ll go there.

J. Courtney Sullivan’s novel “The Cliffs” is also set in Maine. The main character, Jane Flanagan, is enchanted as a teenager by an old historic house perched on a cliff. Jane leaves the house and goes to college and becomes a successful archivist at the Harvard Schlesinger Library, illuminating the lives of women. Professionally and personally, when her life falls apart, she and her children are forced to go home and live in a cliff-top house.

Something inexplainable appears to be happening in the old homes that involve past residents and indigenous peoples in Maine. “The Cliffs” is a page-turning, and its emphasis on the Indigenous population comes as the city of Nashville renamed Cumberland Park in downtown to “Wasioto Park” (the original Shawnee name on the river). Indigenous Union.

Who doesn’t like good filming? Larry agreed that he could have last words about his top three book picks, and when he doesn’t need to read serious things for a living, he always does bad for people who deserve it Ready for a hot crime novel that will happen.

We have many great options, and the best book of the year is “This is why we lied to: Trent Thriller” by Karin Slaughter. ))

However, according to Larry, this year’s novel of the year, with the highest average and sharp knife novels, is The Waiting by Michael Connery. Consenting Connery’s 39th book on California’s degradation, Los Angeles corruption is one of his best.

John Connolly must put his gifts for his old world and evil and violence on this list. His “instrument of darkness” exposes the role of a dishonest psychic scientist whose mother is accused of killing a child and whose spouse is accused of joining the charges.

happy new year.

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