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Book Review: The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
In three very different stories, master storytellers Gene Yang and Derek Kirk Kim pit fantasy against reality, for good or for ill. Subtle, surprising, and entirely...
Book Review: The Complete Persepolis
Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of...
Book Review: Dust Tracks on a Road
So you will have to know something about the time and place where I come from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life. Dust Tracks on a Road by...
Book Review: Tangled
Luscious, I thought. That's what I'll be. Not perfect. Not flawless. Luscious. Tangled by Carolyn Mackler is the story of four teens and what happens after they take a trip...
Book Review: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
My breasts are making me a mockery of a sham. They are like two sticky-out beacons attracting all the sadsacks in the universe. After reading two books about World War II, I...
Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither...
Book Review: Summer of My German Soldier
"It's truly extraordinary," he said. "Who would believe it? 'Jewish girl risks all for German solider.' Tell me, Patty Bergen--" his voice became soft, but with a trace of...
Diversity Roll Call: Paradigm Shifts
The topic of the current diversity roll call is paradigm shifts, more specifically: Have you ever read a book and the character's perspective opened you to ideas, beliefs or...
Book Review: Angela Davis: An Autobiography
I was not anxious to write this book. Writing an autobiography at my age seemed presumptuous. Moreover, I felt that to write about my life, what I did, what I thought and what...