"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community." Martin Luther King's last sentence from his last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community sums up...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 84: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
by MHill | Aug 11, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"Grace meets you exactly where you are and it doesn't leave you." I heard the author Anne Lamott say this quote on the Tim Ferriss podcast a couple of days ago and knew this would be the opening sentence to my latest book review. Grace would be the proper view about...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 83: Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce
by MHill | Aug 6, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
If you live to be 110, how would you look back at your life? With Fondness? With Regret? Missed Opportunities? Or At Peace? The protagonist of Denny S. Bryce's debut novel, Wild Women and the Blues, gets to answer that question. Honoree Dalcour is in mid-1920s...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 82: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
by MHill | Jul 21, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
What does it mean to being smart? It seems we have judged intelligence by IQ and rational knowledge throughout human history. However, there was a book published over twenty-five years ago that challenged the notion and looked at emotions as an important factor...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 81: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
by MHill | Jul 15, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I spent a couple of hours last night reading this beloved book. The Alchemist told the story of Santiago, an Andalusian boy who travels to Egypt in search of his destiny. On the surface, it read as a simple story of the hero's journey told in a different package....
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 80: Planting Stories (The Life of Librarian & Storyteller Pura Belpre) by Anika Aldamuy Denise & Paola Escobar
by MHill | May 23, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
The joy I get in reading with my daughter Norah is you learn about someone that you have never heard of before. This is the case with the book, Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar. Pura Belpre...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 79: Respect-The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz
by MHill | May 2, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Sometimes after reading one book will make you want another book with a similar topic. My previous review was a fictional music documentary in a novel titled The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton. Opal Jewel was one half of a groundbreaking punk rock...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 78: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
by MHill | Apr 24, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"The easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. The hardest thing in the world is to be yourself." Those two sentences were appropriate for one of the two major characters, Opal Jewel, in Dawnie Walton's excellent debut novel, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev....
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 77: Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due
by MHill | Apr 11, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
As a reader, you notice what kinds of books that you keep gravitating towards. Even though I'm an eclectic reader, I keep gravitating recently towards novels that are about the creative process (books, art, food, or music). Human creativity has always been...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 76: Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
by MHill | Mar 16, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I have always been more of a backlist reader than a new release reader. There are so many books published, and it is impossible to keep up as a reader. However, on social media and throughout the publishing world, the new release books especially in fiction are...