Tag: Jess Walter

April Recap

4 Books

1,120 pages

Average Rating 3.5

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Murder at Rudhall Manor 🌟🌟

A Smidge of Crazy 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Every Knee Shall Bow 🌟🌟🌟

I finally broke my 3 book stalemate and gave a 5 star rating!  I am feeling good about April.  I read more, wrote more, and posted more.  It’s certainly not my best and not what I had been planning on. I was suppose to be on vacation, reading and relaxing on a tropical island.  Thanks Rona! 😡 But just rolling with what happens and thankfully I was able to just reschedule for September.  This month I tried to focus on the positives.

  • I am thankful for my health.
  • I am thankful that my friends and family are healthy. 
  • I am thankful I work at home for an awesome company. 
  • I am thankful to Barbara Venkataraman and Anya Wylde for gifting me copies of their books. 😊

Bring on May and Springtime!  🌷🌹🌻

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Book Review – Every Knee Shall Bow

Every Knee Shall Bow by Jess Walter

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Non-Fiction, True Crime

“That unto me, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.” -Isaiah 45:23

“Vickie told friends that H.G. Wells’s fifty-year-old stories had a lot of relevance in modern America, especially for someone like herself, someone who had begun getting messages from God while she took baths and who was having dreams of great violence and a cabin on a mountaintop.”

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Book 12: Idaho

“What went wrong at Ruby Ridge? Why was Randy Weaver’s son fatally shot in the back?

How could the FBI justify shooting a woman as she held her infant child?

Why were the Weavers given a $3.1 million settlement by the U.S. Government?

Was there an FBI cover-up and how high did it go?

Every Knee Shall Bow answers the critical questions that cut to the heart of the most explosive issues in the United States today.

The Weaver Family took to the woods to escape what they believed was a sinful world on the brink of Armageddon. But Randy Weaver’s indictment on a firearms violation escalated into a deadly shoot out at his northern Idaho cabin. Before it was over, a federal marshal, Weaver’s wife and his only son were dead.”

I live about 60 miles from Ruby Ridge and to be honest I didn’t realize all that occurred here.  I thought that it was a hate spreading, racist, radical, that when law enforcement came to arrest him on a weapons violation, a standoff ensued.  Similar to Waco, the government made some errors in how they handled the situation and saddley that resulted in loss of life.  But it seems there was more to the story than I knew and some cover up going on. 

I am ashamed that this happened so close to home, that there are people so filled with hate that used to live here.  I don’t want people to think that only Aryans live in North Idaho.  My community has done a lot over the decades to clean the hate from our streets.

I know that I am not the only one that feels this way.  Does your home have a past or present that you are ashamed of?

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