Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
Original publication date: 1986
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.
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Kaffir Boy does for apartheid-era South Africa [...]
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Wow, was this ever a disappointment.
Like oh so many people, Philippa Gregory’s “The Other Boleyn Girl” was my first foray into historical fiction. That book sparked an obsession, first of Tudor historical fiction, then of English history historical fiction, then just of historical fiction. Sure, Gregory took oh-so-many liberties with [...]
For those of you who don’t know, my little sister will soon be moving to the Chicagoland area. She will be living with my husband and I for at least the first month or so that she is here, until she finds a job and an apartment (hey, if you are in PR/Advertising in Chicago [...]
Immortal by Traci Slatton
Luca Bastardo is a lovely young boy living on the streets of Florence when he is kidnapped and forced into a brothel by Bernardo Silvano. Not only in Silvano cruel, he holds papers that reveal secrets about Luca, secrets in which Catholic Church would be very interested. Luca begins to discover some [...]
Since I started this blog and began tracking my reading at the end of February, I have read 107 books (not counting the two I’m working on now), 64 of which were sent to me for review. Of these 107 books, I have, at this point, posted 97 reviews. I have six reviews waiting in [...]
Well, not only did Ti over at Book Chatter and Other Stuff take a book off of my hands that I didn’t want to read and review (you can see her review of “The Necklace” here), but she totally made my day today by giving me an award I’ve been hoping to get for awhile:
Is [...]
What was the most unusual (for you) book you ever read? Either because the book itself was completely from out in left field somewhere, or was a genre you never read, or was the only book available on a long flight… whatever? What (not counting school textbooks, though literature read for classes counts) was furthest [...]
The American Library Association’s Banned Books Week starts in the U.S. this Saturday, September 27th and runs through Saturday, October 4th.
I have been working on a new Banned Books Library on LibraryThing. Check it out if you would like to see list of many of the books challenged, banned, and censored throughout the world. You [...]
The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
Release Date: Tuesday, September 30th
Ethan Saunders is about to be killed by the jealous husband of one of his conquests when he is suddenly rescued by a man he has never seen before. When this man turns out to be on business for the Bank of the United States and [...]
A while back, I received an ARC of the book “The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives.” I honestly do not remember requesting this book and think it is possible that it just sort of showed up. It is also possible that I blindly requested it during an ARC Junkie high, [...]
