I had a student write about pop culture depictions of African Americans in my spring Composition course for online studies, and she used Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow as one of her sources. I was intrigued. I’ve done a bit of reading in African American studies, history and literary, and this was a good sociological balance to the knowledge base I’ve tried to create. Full review found on my blog.
A contender for Best Book of 2016
I had heard early acclaim for Yaa Gyasi’s debute novel, Homegoing, but it wasn’t until ElCicco’s rave review that I first thought, “I must read this.” I come and go on long family sagas, but Gyasi has forever changed the game, in my opinion. This is a must-read book, and I cannot quite say enough about it. Definitely in the running for Best Book of 2016. I develop this argument for Best Book 2016 in my full review. Also: if you don’t think you like […]
Is your legacy a blessing or a curse? J.K. Rowling explores the question.
When J.K. Rowling announced that she’d be writing a play about Harry Potter, we all knew she wouldn’t be done with Harry Potter. Several people began plotting ways to get to London to see the play’s premiere. There was controversy that the actress who played adult Hermione was black. The horror, you guys. How DARE black women live in England?????? [For real, though, that was incredibly stupid. I think I need to reimagine Hermione as black in my re-read instead of picturing her as Emma […]
A new-to-me L’Engle series
The L’Engle reading saga continues! This time, I am delving into her O’Keefe family saga, which specifically focuses on oldest daughter Polyhymnia, or Poly (later changed to Polly). This series has a much more scientific and mystery-oriented thrust than the Time books, though there is still plenty of philosophy to go around. Up till now, I had only read An Acceptable Time (billed as part of the Time books, but it’s really not), but I was eager to see how the rest of the books […]
And now…my LEAST favorite L’Engle
You guys. Reading this book was a chore, and that’s a crime, because Madeleine L’Engle is such a fantastic writer. I’ve only read this once before, and I remember really disliking it before, but because I’m a completionist, blah blah blah, I had to read the whole sequence. So I read it. And here we go.
My favorite L’Engle book.
When we read The Doomsday Book for Book Club, I was excited about the time travel aspect, though disappointed in the execution and plotting of it. So I was delighted to revisit my favorite in the L’Engle series, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which features a move through time in order to save the universe from nuclear warfare (and yes, this book is a little dated by that feature, but it doesn’t matter in the end). You can find my full review here. There *might* be […]
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