People still find hunting for gold exciting enough to keep Gold Rush! on the air for years. Imagine what it was like 100 years ago for a very young woman to live alone in an Alaskan mining town! This book takes you there, and it’s true.
Without our teachers, we wouldn’t have a nation.
Have you ever thought of taking a year off and traveling? With teenagers?
What is it like to grow up inside a hate group?
What Brittany K. Barnett doesn’t say in A Knock at Midnight Ok, before I discuss this book at all, I have to address the elephant in the room: every imprisoned person profiled in it committed a crime. Many people who were never imprisoned committed crimes, including the author. Buy on Amazon A Knock at …
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I’m going to be up front: I’ve never liked Jell-o very much. I definitely would never eat any Jell-o with “pieces” in it, meaning no Jell-o salads of any kind. And even then I didn’t like it when you would hit those weird slivers of Jell-o. Did anyone else encounter that? I did, and do, …
“Jell-o Girls”: Does family money make life better? Read More »
Why I Read Fun Home Fun Home is a book that I have studiously avoided reading for a long time because I thought it was somehow about perversion and abuse, and I have read my fair share of memoirs about that topic. You get to a point in life, or at least I …
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Why I read Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant To be perfectly honest, I read this book because it’s one of the very few graphic novels listed in James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read BeforeYou Die. I don’t know if this book would have jumped out at me without that. And honestly, reading …
Why I read Unorthodox Like the rest of the world, I watched some Netflix during the recent quarantine. I probably didn’t watch as much as most other people because keeping up with my reading for The Lois Level keeps me pretty busy, but I did watch a little, and when I found Unorthodox, the story …
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Do you remember how every childhood summer was the same, until it was different?
