Rick Bragg’s memoir, All Over But the Shoutin’, has a lot of potential. He ostensibly claims it is a story about his mother and growing up extremely poor in Northeastern Alabama. Bragg grew up with a single mother and a father who drank a lot, and somehow turned into a reporter for the New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize. Bragg does some things really well with this book. His depiction of his mother is of a wonderful woman who gave up everything to […]
A Look into the Personal Life of a Political Man
Anyway, this was a very approachable book to Marx’s life and to an extent, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx. I definitely appreciated that this wasn’t very dry, and that it was a relatively engaging read. However, I felt like I wanted something deeper. I think the author did a good job of explaining what Marx was doing and how his life progressed, but I am not sure I always understood the why. Why did this middle class German who was connected to aristocracy by marriage […]
“Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?”
After binge-watching the Netflix original series “Orange in the New Black” in only three days, I knew I had to read the book to compare the real accounts of Piper Kerman to the dramatized television series of Piper Chapman. I’ve always liked books better than their movie or television counterparts, and because I enjoyed the series, I expected to like the book more. I wasn’t disappointed. Without going into too many details because of the differences between the two versions, the basis of the story […]
No, It’s Not Just the Dresses
I fell in love with Jane Austen sometime around 1996. I think the first time I read one of her books was when it was assigned my sophomore year of high school, and I’m pretty sure it was Pride and Prejudice but it may have been Sense and Sensibility. I’m just not sure anymore. In the intervening years I have consumed all six of her major novels, getting the final one read last year, and have partaken in many, but certainly not all, of the […]
Louis Armstrong Is Amazing
I have read several books from the Who Was series. I recently re-read Who Was… Louis Armstrong because I had to do a Black History Month project and I remembered reading it and loving it. Who Was… Louis Armstrong by Yona Zeldis McDonough tells the story of Louis Armstrong’s life and how he didn’t get much proper schooling, he spent most of his schooling in a corrective school because him and his friends were going to shoot off a few cap guns in the street and […]
Another Nonsense Allibaba77 Review
I am trying to catch up on my reviews but feel like I am starting to not make a lot of sense but I am just jazzed about reading and I am falling behind on reviews so this is my third one today, think it will be my last of the day but you never know. Tweak is said to be a tale about “growing up on meth-amphetamines” but really it is a story of recovery and relapse. . . Nic Sheff is our tour […]
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