Until about two months ago, I could say with 100% certainty that I had never won a single thing on a blog. Ever. I’d see books that I liked, leave a comment, hope to win. I don’t enter everything I see. I’m pretty picky about what I put my name in for. So what that [...]
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare is a 1959 Newbery Award winner and deservedly slow. From the back cover: Kit Tyler knew, as she gazed for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home would never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. [...]
I was excited to read X-Indian Chronicles by Thomas Yeahpau for the A-Z challenge hosted by Joy (see my entire list here) So I was sad when I didn’t make it past page 54. The language was just too much. Those X-Indians have quite the potty mouth. I can handle a moderate amount of foul [...]
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman was a 1996 Newbery Honor book. What exactly did Jamie, our young main character see? I don’t think I’ll spoil anything because it’s revealed in the very first sentence and as soon as I read it, I thought, “Oh no, this isn’t going to be pretty.” Jamie see’s his [...]
In April 1994, the Rwandan government executed one of the swiftest and bloodiest genocides in world history when the Hutu majority killed more than 800,000 Tutsi’s in just three months. When people said, “Never again” after the Nazi Holocaust, I suppose they didn’t really mean it as many of the world powers did nothing to [...]
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