Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen
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In Skipjack, Christopher White spends a pivotal year with three memorable captains as they battle...
Kindred
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The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black...
Slavery Time Travel Race
Erika (17788 KP) rated Call Me by Your Name (2017) in Movies
Dec 27, 2017
The Sportswriter
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Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age,...
Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds: 2017
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This book explores humanity's thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention...
Lindsay (1717 KP) rated My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon and California Trails in Books
Jul 9, 2022
The kids told these journeys on the trails through the images and how life was on the trails. Children will be able to learn about the life and history of the US and the Oregon trails. This book shows tragedy and how everyone came together and helped each other along the way. Children can learn about this and American history by reading this book, not of it but a good glimpse of it.
I enjoy learning about the western expansion and the Oregon trails. I am one of those kinds of readers. I was learning about history through books and how life may have been back then—the dangers of it. When reading this book, I read the quotes first and then the information on the page. Tough, you can read it by doing the significant info about the journey or the topic that was talked about and then the quotes after. It doe not really make a difference in what way you read it. I enjoy that. There is no right way to read this book.
I like the focus was on the actual kids that traveled the Organ and California Trails. The author does a beautiful job of that. This book is suitable for middle-grade readers who want to learn about American history. This book would be an excellent book to have in classrooms as well.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Housekeeping: Faber Modern Classics in Books
Sep 7, 2017
Ruth, who is our main narrator, is speaking about her childhood in which her sister Lucille and her were continually abandoned by one family or another. Eventually they end up with their deeply eccentric aunt Sylvie, and she seems completely incapable in many ways of being a responsible parent, but rather a sister instead. She leads a transcient life, having deserted her husband, jumping on trains to get from place to place. She's a spirited wanderer, and sees Ruth as an ally and her own sister, Helen, who killed herself at the start of the book.
Their solitary life of never mixing, but staying in the great outdoors both seems idyllic and claustrophobic. There are images of the lake where the children's mother committed suicide, that seem to draw the women to this area. The metaphors are cold and quiet hence it feels unnerving.
It's a classic American tale about real women, which makes this different to the old books talking only about marriage and fidelity.
Careless Love: Unmaking of Elvis Presley
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Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received...
Oliver Mtukudzi: Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe
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Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and...
Walker Evans
David Campany, Clement Cheroux, Svetlana Alpers and Anne Bertrand
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Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on...