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Monday, April 19, 2010

Book review: Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes (Book 35 of 100)

tried to write this review three times, if something happens this time. I’m just going to give up. This one disk Audiobook arrived from my audiobook club yesterday. It was amazing to hear Langston Hughes read his own work and tell stories about it. I never heard Langston’s voice until now on the CD.... Sign in to see full entry.

Book Review: Only Passing Through (Book 34 or 100)

Only Passing Through is supposed to be a children’s book about Sojourner Truth. It was on 41 minutes long. Even though I’m an adult, who lives near Northampton where Sojourner lived for a long time, I didn’t know that her “birth name” was Isabella or that she sued a white slave-owner to get her son... Sign in to see full entry.

Book Review: Brightsided (Book 33 of 100)

Brightsided by Barbara Ehrenreich was my latest book. I like Ms. Ehrenreich as you know. Her books are funny and poignant. However, this the first book of hers that I disagreed with, she says that happiness doesn’t encourage good health. As I person with various impairment, illnesses, and injuries I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Book Review: Atemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident (Book 32 of 100)

This was the second book the Artemis Fowl Series. I liked it. In this book, Artrmis’s father is found with help from his fairy colleagues. He’s kidnapped by the Russian mob, of all things! Artemis has been enrolled in school after his mother has recovered from her depressive episode. The boy genesis... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Book Review: Atemis Fowl (Book 31 or 100)

I'd been thinking of reading the Artemis Fowl series since it came out a couple of years ago, but I had never gotten around to it. That is, until I picked it up in the library last week. I like Artemis even though he is a decidedly unlikeable person. Even though I'm all grown up now, my inner child... Sign in to see full entry.

Book Review: Founding Brothers (Book 30 of 100)

I never had much of an opinion about the founding fathers other than they were stereotypically all dead, heterosexual, white men who were probably racist and sexist too boot. Joseph J. Ellis's book Founding Brothers helped to change that opinion. It's true that all the founding fathers were white... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Book Review: How to Be Alone (Book 29 of 100)

How to be Alone with an 8-Disc Audiobook narrated by Jonathan Franzen whose other book “The Corrections” I reviewed rather unfavorably earlier in this list of 100 books. That being said, I also gained some knowledge and found a new research project from reading it. As a result of reading this book,... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe (28 of 100)

Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert is a direct indictment of U.S. handling of the climate change crisis during the Bush regime. I thought I was a pretty hip environmentalist, but I never knew that we knew what was going on with the climate as far back as 1979, during the Carter... Sign in to see full entry.

Book Review: Bait and Switch (27 of 1000)

I have lately been reading and reviewing a lot of science fiction as you know. For some reason, my brain demanded something of a bit more substance. I stopped three discs into Pendragon Number 8 and have no real burning desire right now to return to that fantasy world. To that end, my 27 th book is... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Book Review: The Quillan Games - Pendragon Book 7 (Book 26 of 100)

The territory of Quillan is in big trouble before Bobby Pendragon gets there. I never thought of a children's book (especially a fictional one) as being a good tool for teaching kids about buying locally and the dangers of international financial institutions and mulit-national corporations, but... Sign in to see full entry.

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