Read this book while riding around on a golf cart today and highly recommend! It’s based on the true story of the wife of a Confederate soldier who riRead this book while riding around on a golf cart today and highly recommend! It’s based on the true story of the wife of a Confederate soldier who risks her life to save a severely wounded Union officer and hide him until he recovers.
Key highlights - the brutality of the Confederacy and the war. This is a war that resulted in a lot of amputees and this book really gives you a visceral feel for the war - A favorite moment for me was the Union officer correcting the 13-year-old girl in the story’s language. She uses the term “servants” to describe the enslaved people she grew up with and the Union officer correcting her and forcing her to acknowledge the reality - they’re slaves, not servants was poignant. - the cultural hate between Northerners and Southerners. The story really gives you more of a feel for the everyday resentment - the soldier's wife resents the Union officer's wife, who lives far from the frontlines and will never live in fear of partisan fighters assaulting her or Union soldiers burning her home down.
Overall such a good story and even more incredible that it’s based on a real story. Not much of a romance, though it’s marketed as that. Highly recommend!...more
Ella may be a saint, but if my husband called me "my child" after we got married and refused to be intimate, I'm signing up for that annulment. Ella may be a saint, but if my husband called me "my child" after we got married and refused to be intimate, I'm signing up for that annulment. ...more
This doesn't feel like a book set today because I really struggle to imagine someone who grew up punk, whPNW & Sapphic? Of course, I'm gonna read it.
This doesn't feel like a book set today because I really struggle to imagine someone who grew up punk, who left home at 16, who shaved their head - having no previous thoughts about their sexuality. Sure - they were living on survival mode but in 2025 to be that comp-het? in the PNW? feels weird.
this book is 90% questioning one's sexuality, and it got grating after a bit. ...more
this book made me go "huh??" several times and i empathize that it's a tale of patriarchal expectations and "breaking free" of societal norms. this book made me go "huh??" several times and i empathize that it's a tale of patriarchal expectations and "breaking free" of societal norms. ...more