About Blog Home Boozy Book Club vol. 4 For February, which is Black History Month in the US, we’ve chosen a book about key figures in a legendary section of another Midwestern city, Detroit. Unlike some of our recent choices, this book actually has cocktails in it, too — it is Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall. This book, technically labeled historical fiction , blends fact and imagination to portray 52 “saints,” each of whom was an important figure in the Black Bottom community of Detroit. And, each cha
Unfortunately, I did not finish this book before we met — I have been listening to it, but have not has as much time and energy as I would have liked to listen in the last few weeks. My parents have recently moved to an assisted living community, and we’ve cleaned out their house to prepare it for sale, so a lot of my time and attention has been elsewhere. I can highly recommend the book Learning to Speak Alzheimers , if you have anyone in your life with dementia — I did make time to complete that book, as
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