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Minnie & Ray Price: The Women In My Life / Goldfish In The Bathtub / Uncle Nabob's Jug / Brother Going Swimming / The Box Supper / The News From Grinder's Switch / The Yanks A Comin' / Uncle Nabob In N.Y. / Mother's Old Steel Thimble (Song) by Minnie Pearl

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ClareR (6241 KP) rated The Pumilio Child in Books

Apr 6, 2018

The Pumilio Child

Judy McInerney | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

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Ya Ling is kidnapped from her well-off Chinese family and sold in to slavery in 15th century Italy. Mantegna, a Renaissance artist, buys her with money that he can't really afford to spend, and takes her home to a very disapproving wife and household.
Ya Ling is admirable calm and stoic through all of her trials and tribulations, and eventually work as a respected healer, as her family taught her back in China.
The author really makes you feel for the characters in her novel - pity and later pride for Ya Ling, and hatred for some of the less virtuous male characters. It's a book that reflects the times very well: men, and men in the church especially, hold all the cards. Women are held in very low esteem. And women who are in any way different from the accepted norms are in danger of the ecclesiastical courts.
I read this on 'The Pigeonhole', a social reading platform, and really enjoyed the whole experience.

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Jennifer Daniell (108 KP) rated The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek in Books

Jun 9, 2019

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

10.0

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I LOVED this book.

Nicknamed Bluet due to her blue skin, Cussy Mary has been an outcast her whole life. Deep in Kentucky, Blue skinned people are looked down upon as tainted, unholy, second class citizens. Now 19, her coal mining father wants nothing more for her than to settle down with a husband and have a family like a decent woman should but she has found her place - as a Book Woman, riding the trails delivering books to the Hill folk, who can't or won't get an education otherwise. Through the books and magazines she delivers she is making a difference in the lives of her patrons, and they are making a difference in hers, giving her a sense of pride an income, and a community. But not everyone is accepting of her as a Blue, and she is increasingly more threatened by the local Preacher, who is determined to "save" her.