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ClareR (6037 KP) rated Good Dirt in Books

Nov 23, 2025  
Good Dirt
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson | 2025 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Mystery
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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Good Dirt is the story of a family tragedy and how it shapes the lives of the remaining family. The timeline is a bit all over the place: Ebby’s flight to France after her fiancé doesn’t turn up to their lavish wedding in the present, the house intrusion in the present past, Ebby’s family history in the distant past (Africa, slavery and escape). Now, I’m a fan of multiple timelines, but these were a bit too disjointed, and it did require a bit of concentration (especially on a dog walk). This may well be a different experience if you read the book, but I struggled a bit, and had to keep checking chapter headings and rewinding now and again. Perhaps this was just the wrong time to listen to it. I did like the story, though.
  
Strong Island (2017)
Strong Island (2017)
2017 | Crime, Documentary
Hugely tragic, a family destroyed
I wasn't sure what to expect with this new Netflix documentary film especially as it was tipped alongside the likes of The Confession Tapes and The Keepers.

However, this was rather different. This wasn't about getting to the bottom of a mystery. This was about a family's personal tragedy - in this case, the family of the director Yance Ford. At the time of this film she had not started her transition to becoming transgender, so he now refers as a male.

His story is about the death of his older brother William, shot dead by a white man in dubious self defence circumstances. It shows how his family struggled to cope in the aftermath, and there's a scene where the director cries in agony and it is sheer horror to watch it. A delicately tragic insight into Ford's trauma.
  
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Rescue Team (Grace Medical, #2)
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
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Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital’s permanent ER director and make Texas her home. Despite staff friction, she’s moving ahead. Then unthinkable tragedy wraps the ER in crime tape, bringing swarms of media, legal chaos—and a search-and-rescue hero who seems determined to meddle in her life.

For Wes Tanner, nothing beats finding someone who’s lost; he’s known that helpless terror firsthand. So he’ll expand his team’s lifeline of hope: K9 tracking, swift water rescue, even horse-mounted searches. He’s ready for anything—except Austin Grace’s prickly and dismissive ER director.

As Kate and Wes discover more about each other, new respect becomes something deeper. Kate wonders if her heart might have finally found a home. Then an unsolved missing persons case—and a startling new one—become catalysts that threaten the loss of all she and Wes have found.