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What is the Actual Impact of Borders?

Against Borders: The Case for Abolition by Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha

January 18, 2025 by ASKReviews 1 Comment

Best for: Those who have a feeling that there’s something wrong with current systems of immigration and borders but wants to put some facts behind that. In a nutshell: Authors Bradley and de Noronha look at all the ways that borders — and the enforcement of immigration associated with them — are a negative for society, and offer some ideas for ways to abolish them. Worth quoting: “Borders do not materialize only at the edges of national territory, in airports, or at border walls. In […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha, Immigration, sociology

ASKReviews's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha, Immigration, sociology ·
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A little hope goes a long way

Two Pieces of Chocolate by Kathy Kacer and illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard

January 17, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Two Pieces of Chocolate by Kathy Kacer and illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard is not an easy book to talk about. It is a story about strength and survival illustrated by imagery that brings to life the situation realistic, but also does soften the seriousness. But after that if you tell what happens, it really tells the whole story and you will not need to read it. Based on real events that happened to a young girl, her mother and fellow prisoners in their final concentration […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: family, friendship, Gabrielle Grimard, Holocaust, Kathy Kacer, Kathy Kacer and illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard, Social Themes, World War II

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: family, friendship, Gabrielle Grimard, Holocaust, Kathy Kacer, Kathy Kacer and illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard, Social Themes, World War II ·
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For the Trees!

Franklin's Trees by AJ Schenkman

January 17, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In July 2024 Franklin’s Trees was published. I wasn’t able to read a (online) copy until early 2025. Now, it is not a book I went WOW over, or feel that it was worth waiting for, but it is a book that is a nice book when you find it. It never really wowed me, but AJ Schenkman’s book did interest me. I was not sure what to expect, but went about it with an open mind. We know some about Franklin D. Roosevelt, but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: AJ Schenkman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Lauren Reese, nature, politics, presidents of the United States, Trees & Forests

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: AJ Schenkman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Lauren Reese, nature, politics, presidents of the United States, Trees & Forests ·
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Not All That Mathy! Trust Me!

The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell

January 15, 2025 by elderberrywine 4 Comments

I got this for a Christmas present – retired math teacher and all – and it turned out to be quite enlightening.  These types of books tend to run more along the “Hey did you know that a lot of important math discoveries were made by – wait for it – women and non-European white males?  That includes the lady with the best nickname ever, the Witch of Agnesi, based on a botched translation.  My theory is that these ladies came up with these amazing […]

Filed Under: Featured, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Diverse civilizations, Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, Math history, Minimal math background required, Multiethnic and Multinational, Some European white guys but not that many

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Diverse civilizations, Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, Math history, Minimal math background required, Multiethnic and Multinational, Some European white guys but not that many ·
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“Before you sentence the guilty, at least listen through to the end of the story.”

Memoirs of a French Courtesan: Volume 1: Rebellion by Celeste Mogador, Kristen Hall-Geisler (translator)

Memoirs of a French Courtesan: Volume 2: Spectacle by Celeste Mogador, Kristen Hall-Geisler (translator)

January 13, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Memoirs of a French Courtesan: Volume 1: Rebellion – 4 stars Before she was the famed courtesan Mogador, Céleste was a young girl with a troubled childhood running with her mother from an abusive stepfather. Sex workers were an integral part of Paris’s bohemian society in the 19th century, but one of the first of them to put her own story down for herself was Céleste Mogador. Having heard plenty on the subject in operas and Les Mis, I was interested in hearing one of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, 19th century, Celeste Mogador, Kristen Hall-Geisler (translator), France, french literature, sex work

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, 19th century, Celeste Mogador, Kristen Hall-Geisler (translator), France, french literature, sex work ·
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a *gasp* new IRL book club!

Thunderstone by Nancy Campbell

January 13, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This was an interesting book for a few reasons, the least of which is that it *literally * fell apart in my hands–every single page came apart as I turned it, leaving me with a curious sort of folio of pages once I finished it. In that sense, the book (purchased second hand on eBay, and therefore possessed of a sort of tacky, damp history) felt akin to how most of this narrative felt: hanging on by a wish and thread and a bit of […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Nancy Campbell

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Nancy Campbell ·
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