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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...
Book Review: Athletic Shorts
"Superman's not brave. [...] He's indestructible. You can't be brave when you're indestructible. It's guys like you and me that are brave, Angus. Guys who are different and...
Book Review: A Crooked Kind of Perfect
I was supposed to play the piano. [...] I play the organ. A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban can be summed up in the words of the Rolling Stones: "You can't always get...
Book Review: Among the Hidden
"I am a third child! I want to be treated like everyone else!" When I did my independent study at Iowa State University, the professor book talked Margaret Peterson Haddix's...
shameless self-promotion
A review I wrote of Robinn Gourley’s Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie and Anita Silvey’s I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War appears in...
POC challenge
So since I last updated, a lot has happened. For one, I had a database crash, which means my first two reviews of the year were lost. (In summation: Everything Is...
Favorite New Reads of 2009
So, last year I read 74 books, several of which were rereads. Here's a list of my favorite new reads of 2009, in neat little categories. Non-fiction 1-2-3 Magic: Effective...