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Susann Williams is 33% done with Secrets of a Charmed Life
It doesn’t matter which stage of history, the old adage “youth is wasted on the young“ applies. I can see this young woman, just as England is entering World War II, about to make a dumb decision and I’m thinking – Nooo girl!
Jul 26, 2025 02:58PM Add a comment
Secrets of a Charmed Life

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 48% done with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The mistrust or rather distrust of the medical field runs deep with Black people. It’s amazing to me that though public reports of experimentation on Black people was not widely known, we knew.
May 22, 2025 07:10PM Add a comment
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 38% done with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“ Though the American Medical Association had issued rules protecting laboratory animals in 1910, no such rules existed for humans until Nuremberg [in 1947].” I don’t even have a response to that except that it is absolutely startling.
May 21, 2025 11:06AM Add a comment
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 17% done with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I’ve only read a few chapters and I’m already conflicted by this true story. While eternally grateful for every scientist involved in cancer research–my son is a cancer survivor–the Black woman in me is angered that no one even ASKED Henrietta or her family if it was OK to use the cells. This type of disrespect for Black bodies historically repeats itself, and is beyond frustrating.
May 09, 2025 12:12PM Add a comment
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 17% done with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I’ve only read a few chapters and I’m already conflicted by this true story. While eternally grateful for every scientist involved in cancer research–my son is a cancer survivor–the Black woman in me is angered that no one even ASKED Henrietta or her family if it was OK to use the cells. This type of disrespect for Black bodies historically repeats itself, and is beyond frustrating.
May 09, 2025 12:11PM Add a comment
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is starting Gulf Coast Cottage (Blackbird Beach, #1)
Whoever the readers are for this audiobook does a great job. Though this book isn’t filled with the intense action that I generally enjoy, I really like these characters and find the story endearing.
Oct 23, 2024 10:45AM Add a comment
Gulf Coast Cottage (Blackbird Beach, #1)

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is starting The Summer of Yes
Just because the summer is about over doesn’t mean that this open attitude the main character took on can’t be done. Her saying yes to new things allowed her to be open to new challenges and to say “yes” to herself. What a humorous, thought provoking, and beautiful book! So worth it.
Aug 19, 2024 01:47PM Add a comment
The Summer of Yes

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is finished with All My Secrets: A Historical Romance Set in Gilded Age New York
So far I think the book is gripping. I’m anxious to hear Sylvia’s story.
Mar 04, 2024 06:35PM Add a comment
All My Secrets: A Historical Romance Set in Gilded Age New York

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is on page 31 of 304 of Black Boy Joy
Cornell’s Pop-pop is hilarious without trying to be. “You don’t know what you don’t know.” So true—little boys don’t know what should smell good. If they did their bedrooms wouldn’t smell like locker rooms! Lol. He makes me wish my dad would have lived to meet his grandsons.
Jul 09, 2022 12:29PM Add a comment
Black Boy Joy

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is on page 14 of 304 of Black Boy Joy
“Joy is a fragile thing, my boy, and must be treated as such. Too harsh and it disintegrates. Rush, and it disappears. So we cokes at fourth. Feed it, like Kenley to a fire.“

I’ve never thought of joy being fragile. This gives me something to think about.
Jul 09, 2022 12:04PM Add a comment
Black Boy Joy

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 13% done with Love Without End (Kings Meadow Romance, #1)
“You know some folks say that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle. I don’t believe that’s true. He doesn’t give us more than He can handle.” Now that is powerful!
Jul 02, 2022 07:49AM Add a comment
Love Without End (Kings Meadow Romance, #1)

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 24% done with Take My Hand
Oh my goodness! I know this is fictitious but I want to scream at the in justice of what Black people have gone through.
May 29, 2022 10:22AM Add a comment
Take My Hand

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Susann Williams is 43% done with Unspoken: Bathsheba (Lineage of Grace, #4)
I’m not sure if I agree that he knew. I think he was just an honorable man.
Jan 19, 2022 11:05AM Add a comment
Unspoken: Bathsheba (Lineage of Grace, #4)

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Susann Williams is 62% done with The Mistletoe Countess (Freddie & Grace Mystery, #1)
“A hero is never who he was. It is who he becomes.” Aunt Lavinia

Profound
Dec 26, 2021 04:55PM Add a comment
The Mistletoe Countess (Freddie & Grace Mystery, #1)

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 9% done with The Personal Librarian
This book surprised me already! I thought it would be a book about a Black woman who became a librarian for a famous white man—just tell her story…

Oh but there’s so much more to it than that! I hope this book is as good as it’s stating out to be.
Aug 08, 2021 08:11AM Add a comment
The Personal Librarian

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 95% done with Hidden Figures
“Their goal wasn’t to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talent. Like the men they worked for and the men they sent hurtling off into the atmosphere, they were just doing their jobs.”

There are so many layers to this statement.
Jul 29, 2021 02:37PM Add a comment
Hidden Figures

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 94% done with Hidden Figures
“The power of the history of NASA‘s black computers is that even the firsts weren’t the onlys.“

So many Black women. So many women period who were overlooked.
Jul 29, 2021 02:35PM Add a comment
Hidden Figures

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 19% done with Hidden Figures
“Negro life in America was a never-ending cycle of negotiations.”

So true.
Jul 20, 2021 09:51AM Add a comment
Hidden Figures

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 7% done with Clap When You Land
“ It’s almost as if the day has forgotten that it has stolen my father.”

I know exactly what that feels like but have never been able to word it this way. I mean how can the sun go on shining and kids keep doing kid things while he is gone? I was just a little older than this character when the day stole my father. Yeah.
Jul 03, 2021 10:37AM Add a comment
Clap When You Land

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 90% done with In Deed and in Truth
I’m too nervous to read any more of this book. These main characters are playing a dangerous game.
May 07, 2021 05:33PM Add a comment
In Deed and in Truth

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Susann Williams is 73% done with Yellow Wife
This is a tough read even though it is fictional. There are some real life questions I have that pertain to history and to this book: I wonder how people who enslaved others could be so cruel and think that by being kind to “some” of the enslaved people they are justified? How could anyone happily watch someone being beaten? Or lynched? How could someone dress their children up for the occasion?
Mar 21, 2021 01:02PM Add a comment
Yellow Wife

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 87% done with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Arlington National Cemetery was a plantation? We’ve got to do better with teaching our history America.
Feb 13, 2021 02:31PM Add a comment
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 77% done with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
I’m so angry about how she was treated on the plane—how no one came to her aid. I kept thinking of all of the women during slavery who were violated because of their position as enslaved and because they were women. Caste seems to be related to class, ethnicity, AND gender.
Feb 13, 2021 10:25AM Add a comment
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 72% done with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
OK the diligence that the Germans went through to prove that they were indeed Aryan, to find out if there was any Jewish blood in their DNA should not surprise me. It reminds me quite a bit of black Americans In the US Who were labeled as mulatto, quadroons, octoroons, etc. based on which relative had black blood.
Feb 13, 2021 09:05AM Add a comment
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 9% done with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Of courses you know there are no Black people in Africa?”

Wow. Of course there aren’t. I’ve never even considered it.
Feb 01, 2021 08:00AM Add a comment
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Susann Williams
Susann Williams is 9% done with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So “Negros“ from Africa have arrived in the new colony. It is 1619 and they have been bought with victuals. They bought them with food!?
Feb 01, 2021 05:17AM Add a comment
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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