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...
Mar 3, 2010 5 4 min read
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Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
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Book Review: Angela Davis: An Autobiography
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Book Review: A Crooked Kind of Perfect
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Book Review: Among the Hidden
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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 Purdue...
Nostalgia: Sweet Valley Twins and Friends: The Magic Christmas
I am reading two very serious books (serious in different ways--one is an autobiography, another is just kind of hard to read), so to give myself a break on Christmas Eve, I...
Book Review: When You Reach Me
“Well, it’s simple to love someone,” she said. “But it’s hard to know when you need to say it out loud.” That quote doesn't really encapsulate the main plot of When You Reach Me...