214 books overall; 125 books read in the last year; 12 books read in the last month. That's an average of 8 books each month.
It took me an agonizing six weeks to read We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories by Rwandaby Philip Gourevitch. Don’t let the word agonizing fool you though, because I thought this book was really important for one simple reason: the more we know, the less […]
Wow. Wow. Escape by Carolyn Jessop (with Laura Palmer) deserves two wow’s. No, let’s make it three. WOW. After reading Shattered Dreams, My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer (my book review here) I knew that I wanted more. So glad that I read this one. If I thought Shattered Dreams talked about […]
Wow. I could not put down Shattered Dreams, My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer. I carried it with me everywhere and snuck in pages whenever I could. I kept discussing everything that I was reading with my husband because I could not believe that woman actually lived like Irene Spencer. After I […]
I read The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman simply because everybody told met that with my interest in Holocaust literature, I HAD to read it. So of course, I did.
If you are not familiar with The Complete Maus (Maus I and Maus II), let me briefly fill you in. It’s told in alternating viewpoints between […]
Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine is the true non-fiction account of well . . . Hana’s suitcase. Hana’s story begins in Japan at the Tokyo Holocaust Center where director Fumiko Ishioka is struggling to educate Japan’s youth about the horrors of the Holocaust. Desperate to give the students something physical to bring the realities of […]
