The last week in September is always dedicated to bringing awareness to banned or challenged books. The American Library Association explains the difference more succinctly than I can: A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. […]
Doc Holliday. To most of us, it’s a name out of legend. The Wild West. The Shootout at the O.K. Corral. Wyatt Earp. But there’s a real man behind the myth and in this work of fiction, author Mary Doria Russell tries to find him. I must admit upfront that the O.K. Corral, etc. is […]
Image attribution: Sara Aydin Matos Please link your reviews for the Books in Translation Reading Challenge 2014 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. I’m aiming low this year, for the Beginner level. This one’s always a struggle for me! […]
Image attribution: Sara Aydin Matos Image attribution: Sara Aydin Matos Please go to this page to link your reviews. After a brief delay, I’m finally posting the Books in Translation Reading Challenge for 2014. The goal is obviously to read translations of books, from any language into the language(s) you’re comfortable reading in; they don’t […]
Please link your reviews for the Nonfiction Reading Challenge 2014 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was […]
Please link your reviews on the review link-up page. The Challenge: Read any non-fiction book(s), adult or young adult. That’s it. You can choose anything. Memoirs? Yes. History? Yes. Travel? Yes. You get the idea? Absolutely anything that is classified as non-fiction counts for this challenge. I always like levels in my challenges, so here […]
Please link your reviews for the Southern Literature Challenge 2014 here. Looking for the “rules” or the sign up page? Click here or click on the button. I’ll track my progress here. Please link to the review and not your blog home page. My suggested format is the title of your blog and then the […]
PLEASE LINK YOUR REVIEWS ON THE REVIEW LINK-UP PAGE It’s that time again! I’m hosting the Southern Literature Reading Challenge for the fourth year in a row. I can’t believe it’s been that long already! The rules: Read a book(s)–non-fiction or fiction of any genre, for any age group–written by an author from the South […]
Lee Smith’s Oral History meanders through about three generations of Cantrells, an Appalachian family. The lynchpin of their history is Red Emmy, a woman named as a witch by the earlier generation. We’re not told much about Red Emmy in the story. She might be present for about 20 pages. But she sets her mark […]
In Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Captain Augustus “Gus” McCrae, late of the Texas Rangers, has retired to life on a cattle ranch. His partner, Captain Woodrow Call, does all the work and Gus does all the drinking and talking. Gus is happy that way and, truth be told, so is Captain Call. Gus sits around […]
Enzo, the narrator of The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, is a dog. But not just any dog; he believes that he has gained the wisdom to come back in his next life as a man. I agree. If anything, he’s probably too wise to be one of us. I loved […]