Review of book from Ohio history

Just heard a good review about a novel with some local history connection. Thought I'd pass it one. A patron just came in today and started talking about how good this books was. I'm attaching a review from a blog I follow in the title of the post. The Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is about black slavey in southwest Ohio. When a patron comes in raving about a book that she just read librarians have to sit up and take notice. It's just part of the job description. Listen to your patrons. I love it when they like a book so much that they have to talk about it. For me, the real deal when it comes to bibliophilia, it is a highlight of my day to receive a good recommendation from a patron. I also like to listen when the staff shares good reads with me too. Yesterday Julie was telling me about the Lonely Polygamist by Bradley Udall. She says I have to read it, it's really out loud funny in parts. That makes a story special to me. Another one of my patrons was telling me that I had brought the book Marley and Me by John Grogan to his wife as part of our homebound delivery here at the library. He is in the nursing home, and as I walked by his door, he was reading the book. His wife brought it to him because she had enjoyed it so much. He said he was chuckling in some parts and was glad to have it for a change from the newspaper. Later in the day, my friend recommended Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen, written in a child's point of view. She said it was the best book she's read all year. All of these have to be placed on my To-Be-Read pile. Right now I'm reading Pat Conroy's latest, South of Broad Street. It has grabbed me from the beginning, the description gives me the immediate feeling of being in his home town, Charleston, South Carolina. I want to be with him, and he is making me see this place through his eyes. As I read I am amassed by his poetic language. "I carry the delicate porcelain beauty of Charleston like a hinged shell of some soft-tissued mollusk. My soul is peninsula-shaped and sun-hardened and river-swollen." I could read language like that all day. I wonder how many book recommendations will come my way today.