Do you know a friend better when you’ve seen a picture of them as a child? I’d like to say yes – and I believe it is true.
May 14, 2019
by jenniferpuryear
Educated: Guest Post by Tara Scarlett
Book Title: Educated
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June 14, 2018
by jenniferpuryear
Summer Reading 2018: What is Love?
Book Titles: The Mars Room, Educated, Less, You Think It, I’ll Say It, Warlight, Sing Unburied Sing, Varina, Bury What We Cannot Take
I’ve just finished up a year of “Leadership Nashville,” which involved 14-hour days and field trips and a lot of time on the bus with strangers who – thankfully, wonderfully, quickly and sometimes slowly – became friends. In our group of 44: a sparkling news anchor, a beautiful rabbi. An editor of our newspaper and a museum curator. The heads of Metro Nashville Sports Authority, …
May 20, 2018
by jenniferpuryear
”I Am A Warrior”
Book Titles: My Absolute Darling, Educated
Thank God for the people who survive their harrowing childhoods and live to tell their warrior tales. Thank God for the novelists who imagine courage in the worst of circumstances. They inspire us – the truth tellers – for truth and bravery take many forms. Mary Raymond returns to Bacon today with a compelling account of two hot current reads featuring heroines who transcend dire …