Quite a few of the books I have read are being released today, two historical fiction novels (please note, this is not “Sarah’s Key”’s first release, this is the paperback release) and two children/young adult books. Please click on the covers for my reviews.
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Native Son by Richard Wright
Original publication date: 1940
This week is banned books week in the United States. All week I will be highlighting banned, challenged, and censored books I own and have read.
Publisher description:
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; [...]
Evidently I timed my drive into work this morning JUST right, because the last full story I heard on NPR (via Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ - woohoo!) was about Banned Books Week.
The whole thing was fascinating, but what really caught my ears was a statement made by Judith Krug of the American Library Association:
“They’re not [...]
From Marie at Boston Bibliophile: For this week’s Tuesday Thingers, I’ve copied the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read. Bold what you’ve read, and italicize what you have in your LT library.
I will also be starring the books I’m featuring this week.
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
By Diane McKinney-Whetstone
ISBN: 978-0-68-816386-0
Reviewed by Jen Karsbaek for Reader Views (09/08)
Fantastic Character-Driven Novel, 4.5 stars
Nan, Neena, and Tish all had their lives changed by Freeda. Her wild joy when she was manic, her disappearances when she was depressed, Freeda’s mental illness shaped in a very real way the lives of her [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Original publication date:1985
This week is banned books week in the United States. All week I will be highlighting banned, challenged, and censored books I own and have read.
Publisher description:
In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story [...]
This contest is now closed.
It is official! ”The River, By Moonlight,” was the 100th review I have published on my blog!
Yay!!!
To celebrate, I want to share with some of my loyal readers some of the wonderful books I have read since starting this blog.
Before I show you all of the books you can win, here [...]
The River, By Moonlight by Camille Marchetta
“The River, By Moonlight” is a deceptively quiet book.
Henrietta Canning awakes one morning in April, 1917 to the sort of phone call that every parent dreads. A girl was seen falling - or did she jump? - into the Hudson River in New York City. A purse wrapped around [...]
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Original publication date: 1939
This week is banned books week in the United States. All week I will be highlighting banned, challenged, and censored books I own and have read.
Publisher description:
One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck’s controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America [...]
Banned Books Week started yesterday in the United States and runs through next Saturday.
To celebrate my freedom to read banned and challenged books, I am posting a spotlight of a book that has been banned or challenged in the United States every day of Banned Books Week at 2 pm. Each is a book that [...]
