Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated On Our Street: Our First Talk about Poverty in Books
Jun 18, 2018
A direct and clear way to talk about the issues of poverty, I like how it's framed as questions with the answers, nice photographs from around the world illustate the points well.
I received this ARC from Orca Book Publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography
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Manyhave called her a saint. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India'shighest civilian...
Why Unicorn Drinks
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In "Unicorn Being a Jerk", author/illustrator C.W. Moss introduced us to the true nature of...
Social Justice and the Power of Compassion: Meaningful Involvement of Organizations Improving the Environment and Community
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Social Justice and the Power of Compassion looks at how a single person, or a small organization,...
The Ultimate Colouring for Grown-Ups
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With more than 150 challenging (and snarky) activities, the The Ultimate Colouring For Grown-Ups...
The Glasgow Coma Scale
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Lynne is a young woman who once dreamed of being an artist, but whose promotion to supervisor at a...
Hard Twisted
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Lucile Garrett is just thirteen when she meets Clint Palmer, a charismatic stranger who will forever...
Blessings Of The Heart
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Writer Brianna Walker had moved to the Arkansas hills for a little peace and quiet. But the stormy...
Felicia (44 KP) rated People Kill People in Books
Sep 23, 2018
The story follows a group of teen to early adults. 2 of them are white supremacists, 2 are married with a young child, 1 is a homeless teen, 1 is a victim of gun violence who has epilepsy and is also homosexual, and 1 is the greatest person ever. The group itself is so entwined by siblings, marriage, relationships, friendships it isn't weird to wonder just how big of a town it could be they are living in.
The book is full of poor choices, dealing drugs with a toddler present, constant fantasizing about killing a certain person, a lot of time spent in the minds of white supremacists.
The whole book we know someone is going to die. Most of the book is framed to make you think it will be the homeless youth at the hands of the white supremacists. But it is actually the great girl that is anti gun and everyone loves because a toddler got a hold of a gun his parents couldn't be bothered to properly store. The end murder affects the lives of everyone else so they mostly die or want to, to demonstrate that guns aren't the problem. Too bad the gun and people's selfish nature was an unaddressed problem in the whole book full of problems.
The plot was too weighed down for anything to stick and the characters fell very flat despite Hopkins best efforts.
A Sense for Murder
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Chef Sally Solari has - to her own bewilderment - built a reputation as a talented sleuth who keeps...