Fascinating – Reads A Lot

“Hangman” Takes the Reader on a Fascinating Journey Home – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 11, 2023 by Stephen Patrick Bell

[ad_1] One morning, you receive a call and are told to board a flight. Your bags are already packed, a car has been sent to pick you up. When you’re hungry, you find food has been packed for you as well. It tastes like nothing. Perhaps someone is dead. This is how the narrator of … Read more

10 Fascinating Facts about the Packhorse Librarian Program

Book BuzzJanuary 19, 2021 by Anna Lough

[ad_1] Between 1935 and 1943, a Works Progress Administration program called the Packhorse Library Program brought books directly to the homes of people in rural Appalachian Kentucky. At the time, roughly 31% of the people living in this area were illiterate. Believing education was the key to bringing people out of poverty, President Roosevelt hired … Read more