{Keep Calm and Soldier On}

Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon {mentioned in previous post} City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert “…at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.” I loved living vicariously through Vivian during 1940s-era New York.  It read slow and I kind of wondered where the plot was going at times, but I'm glad I finished it. I ended up liking this way more than I anticipated .   Wife After Wife by Olivia Hayfield I thought this book, a modern retelling of the life and wives of England's King Henry VIII, was fantastic in a soapy kind of way.  Afterward I made my husband watch all four seasons of The Tudors with me.   Heavy by Kiese Laymon I can't find words of my own to describe this book, so I'm going to borrow a review from Roxane Gay.  I'm aware that this is lazy reviewing, but as a white person I lack the understanding of what it is to be a POC.  That's part of the reason