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This one turned out to be a pretty special read for me this past week... My mind was focused on the Kincade fire here in Sonoma County and I didn't get a lot of time to read. And when I did sit down I had a hard time getting into anything I started. At one... Continue Reading →
Travis is shuffled from once house to another, moving with his brothers and his mom... away from his alcoholic step-dad to his grandmother's house to move in with his real dad. There is a risk at every step for this family as his mother weighs the boys' safety against the wants and needs of destructive... Continue Reading →
Billed as The Outsiders meets the Illiad, I can definitely see elements of both in A Thousand Fires. But this story and the writing just doesn't resonate with me like either of those pieces. Set in modern day San Francisco, the story is about one girl's desire to enact revenge on the gangs that have... Continue Reading →
Our mothers were pregnant African women thrown overboard while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships. We were born breathing water as we did in the womb. We built our home on the sea floor, unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers until their world came to destroy ours. With cannons, they searched for oil beneath... Continue Reading →
A thick doorstop of a graphic novel... an experiment in storytelling and a look inside the suburban homes of American. I took this book with me when I proctored the PSAT a couple weekends ago and I got 4 hours of time to delve in (interrupted by walking around the desks). Focused around a school... Continue Reading →
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