These themes will vary! It could be based off of some book mail I just received, pop culture, something personal to me, a headline from the news, a trend I noticed when I was buying books for my library system, etc. I hope you stick around to see all the themes and book recs I come up with!
Today’s Theme: Historical Multigenerational Families
Some of you may know I’m not a huge historical fiction fan. Mostly because seeing Black and Brown people treated that way hurts me. But I have been tying to get better about it and read some YA historical fiction. And this year I said I would make one of my goals be to read more adult historical fiction. So I challenged myself. I’ve found that I like books specifically about someone from history that I didn’t know much about, or multigenerational family stories. And these last two months I got hella lucky and got two of them. In this one US soldiers were stationed in Germany. As a result there were some babies born over there. This story tells the story of one of those soldiers, one of those kids, and the person who helped bring them back together. [This is adult and is out now!]
In this one, it’s like 3 generations of women from the same family. They all are going or have gone through different hardships. I find it so fascinating to see how they differ between generations. There is a time where they go as far back as to slavery time when their lineage began, but I was able to prepare myself for that one. I figured where that was going and I was able to get mad and then get over it lol But it really made me think of that the whole rest of the book. I was hella glad there were some other points where they showed some of their joy as well. [This is adult and is out now!]
Well, there you go! Here I’m just going to talk about why I grouped these two books together. I hope you enjoyed a look at this small part of the books. For a full synopsis of the book or to add it to your TBR, click the picture and it will take you to their Storygraph. The link on the caption will take you to it’s Goodreads.
What about you? Do you like historical fiction? What about multigenerational family stories? Let me know in the comments!