You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste has been banned from public school curricula and libraries, along with other books addressing racial and LGBTQ topics.
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Caste has been banned from public school curricula and libraries, along with other books addressing racial and LGBTQ topics.
Seven short book reviews: literary fiction, pop fiction, fantasy, science fiction, thriller/suspense
The 57 Bus is young adult non-fiction. The narrative, in true crime tradition, opens with a brutal act, the intentional burning of one teenager by another on a cross-town bus in Oakland, California.
There’s a long hot summer ahead. Stay fresh, cheese bags.
Yesterday was Donna’s birthday, and I am once again the junior partner in our relationship.
Six short book reviews
I thought I’d given up on Jack Reacher novels. Lee Child quit writing them four installments back, passing the torch to his younger brother Andrew. Andrew is not Lee, and some of the oomph went out of the stories, which began to feel like an artificial intelligence was cranking them out. But I couldn’t resist […]
Six short book reviews.