https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c Share your favorite books from our CIS Staff Reading Challenge! Please include which square the book fills and your name! en-us 2016-07-10 20:23:17 UTC 2022-11-29 17:37:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png Deanilynn https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2380402432 Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Brad Paisley's wife and I love both of them!) tells the heart-wrenching story of her mother's battle with primary progressive aphasia (a rare form of dementia). Kimberly wrote and narrated the audio version of this book. She shares her personal family story. There are wonderful family memories shared mixed in with the hurt, fear, and heartbreak of watching her mother suffer from this horrible disease.
Deani Peters]]> 2022-11-11 16:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2380402432 mrod1 https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2380512401 This book stayed with me well after I read it. It's about a serial killer and his collection of women he tattoos with butterflies. It's a great suspense book that actually has sequels which I like because I get to see the aftermath and trial portion of what happens. You won't be disappointed.
Meli Rodriguez]]> 2022-11-11 18:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2380512401 https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2380618245  In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann looks at the murders of at least a dozen Osage tribe members. This murders were cold-blooded and done out of greed. The most shocking part was that due to callousness and prejudice toward American Indians these murders were overlooked and the killers were able to continue their reign of terror for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating.

This was eye-opening. I grew up about 50 miles from where this took place and never knew this happened. I have been to these towns and walked the ground that was covered in blood for money. It was truly heartbreaking. I look forward to the movie release date, and am now looking for more books that expose the truth to the horrible acts against tribe members that were taken advantage of. ]]> 2022-11-11 20:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2380618245 https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2383596578 Written post-Covid shut down, this book provides great insight on how to shift our mindset from "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?" when addressing trauma, especially in the adolescent and infant stages of our lives.

]]> 2022-11-14 20:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2383596578 Deanilynn https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2385176518 Pudge & Prejudice takes place in 1984, Elyse and her family move to the town of Northfield, Texas and Elyse must figure out how to fit into her new high school. A wonderful new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, full of 80s pop culture, Pittman makes this book a must for anyone that went to high school in the 80s, especially a Texas high school. Friday night football, homecoming mums, care bears, cassette tapes, MTV, and 80s music are part of this book, which was like a trip down memory lane for me.
Deani Peters]]> 2022-11-15 16:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2385176518 liz_royer https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2385549985 Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life -- until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive?

This book was so good. I couldn't put it down, and even though I've read several since this one, I keep thinking about it. This was a part of history that I knew very little about, since it was about the Lithuanian people under Stalin's Reign of Terror. Very little is known about this time from their perspective because they were kept silent through the 1990s or else they faced prison. Gripping read.]]> 2022-11-15 21:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/Deanilynn/hddy308ano2c/wish/2385549985