Sara Reads Things

  Welcome to my end of the year playlist. These are the five songs I've been listening to right now and why. Preacher - OneRepublic I listened to this song so many times today. It came up on my playlist this morning, producing massive sobs and crocodile tears. My Grandfather passed away a few years ago. He was a great man and instilled in me many lessons of life, love and happiness. Every once and a while, something reminds me of him and I can't stop the tears that follow. This song was just that. ABCDEFU - Gayle I'm not sure if I like this song because its catchy, or if its just stuck in my head because I've spent too much time on TicTok lately. I'll let you decide. The boys in the band - New Kids on the Block Yes, I grew up in the boy band era and I love this song. Its so catchy and brings back good memories. I will still love my old school boy bands no matter what people say. Normal - Katie Pruitt The last line of this song is "The world told us to fit in, b...

  Title: The Education of Augie Merasty By: Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter Genre: Biography Pages: 105 Release Date: February 8th, 2015 Publisher: Regina Press Rating: ★★★☆☆   Summary from Goodreads: This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government- funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of “aggressive assimilation.” As Augie Merasty recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mold children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their native heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse. But, even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through.   Add on Goodreads   Review: When I picked up this ...

  Title:  The Alpinist Genre:  Documentary Release Date:  September 10th, 2021 My Rating: ★★★★☆ IMDB Rating:  8.0/10   Summary from IMDB:  Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. The free-spirited 23-year-old makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. With no cameras and no margin for error, Leclerc's approach is the essence of solo adventure.   IMDB Trailer   Review: There's something about watching other people do amazing things that terrify most of us. Marc-Andre Leclerc was an amazing young man who had a love for free climbing and pushing his body to the limits. He climb some of the worlds most dangerous mountains and loved every minute of it, but tragedy always seems to strike when you least expect it. An avalanche during a climb took the life of this amazing climber. His body still hasn't been found. This documentary tells about Marc-Andre's life and death and how he touched so many people around him. The movie ...

  Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Genre: Scifi Pages: 193 Release Date: October 12th, 1979 Publisher: Del Rey Rating: ★★★☆☆   Summary from Goodreads: Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out of work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin their journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitch Hiker's Guide "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have" and a galaxy-full of fellow travellers: Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out to lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilli...

  Well, Christmas is over. Did you get some cool things? I sure hope you did. I think my favorite gift was my pot holder from my good friend Amy. Yes, its a pot holder, but she knows me so well. It says "Oops, I'm drunk." LOVE!!! This weeks read is The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I've heard a lot about this story and can't wait to read it and share it with all of you. What is your read this week? Here is the menu. Enjoy! WEEKLY MENU   Monday Spaghetti   Tuesday Creamy Spinach and Tortellini   Wednesday Ground Beef Tacos   Thursday Million Dollar Baked Pork Chops   Friday Easy Chicken Ramen   Saturday Smash Burgers   Sunday Leftovers Night

  Hello Sunday! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. My heart is so full of family and wonderful memories. I'm so glad its over though. Lets recap the week, shall we? Sunday Confessions #127 ~ Weekly Menu #435 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes ~ Can't Wait Wednesday: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon ~ Movie Review: The Rescue ~ Book Review: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez ~ Merry Christmas! Weekly Menu #436 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ~ Movie Review: The Alpinist ~ Sunday Confessions #129 This book looked interesting so of course I had to pick it up. Its just one of the many books on my TBR pile right now. Got to get through them. I've read the first book and watched the first season, now its on to book two and season two. So far, I'm already loving it, but this is my kind of story... Dark and brooding, lol. Rachael at the Book...

  Title: Take My Hand By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 320 Release Date: April 12th, 2022 Publisher: Berkley Rating: ★★★★★   Summary from Goodreads: Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the  New York Times  bestselling author of  Wench . Montgomery, Alabama 1973 . Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a worn down one-room cabin, she’s shocked to learn that her new patients are children—just 11 and 13 years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black and for those hand...

  Title:  The Rescue Genre:  Documentary Release Date:  September 2nd, 2021 My Rating: ★★★★★ IMDB Rating:  8.4/10   Summary from IMDB:  A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.   IMDB Trailer   Review: I am not one for movies or documentaries with water in them. Drowning is my greatest fear, but somehow I made it through this incredible movie... Less a few finger nails... It wasn't long ago when this story was all over the news. I don't remember the details, but I do remember how shocked everyone was when then found all the boys alive in the cave after 12 days of being missing. This documentary shows the rescue with real footage from when then found the boys and the incredible process on getting them out of the cave. How they rescued them had never been done before. It was dangerous, and stupi...