Masters had this to say about the selection of his book for Oprah’s Book Club: “I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at the age 19. I wroteThat Bird Has My Wingswhile in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he says. “My greatest hope at that time was that a...
Chongqing-based illustrator Li Han got her MA from the University for the Creative Arts. Dianxiangan qu na‘r le? won the first prize of the 14th Hsin-yi Picture Book Award. [FW, ZX] The wind blows against us: Feng a chui xiang women 风啊吹响我们 , by XIAO Fuxing 肖复兴 (text) ...
Ugh, this book has been sitting in my hallway for YEARS now and in an effort to not look at it anymore I decided it was time to read it. I got about halfway through before I just gave up. Nothing in this book is new, it is the same old racist diatribe that we’ve been hearin...
What better way to cope with life’s problems than by crashing someone else’s big day? I mean, it worked for Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson right?? As the bride worries over every detail (except for Phoebe), the two women end up bonding over their wildly different situations. Why You ...
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Book club discussed this and it blew my mind—reality TV, religion, feminism, parenthood, capitalism, abuse—and the book left me speechless.Whoais all I can truly coherently say. Essie is the youngest child in TV show “Six for Hicks,” and she’s pregnant. The world can’t know about...
Banks’s first novel, Black Ivory, was a turgid potboiler set in 18th century Louisiana, but it sold well enough to earn an invitation to come to Hollywood, where his next book, Street of Women, became a starring vehicle for Kay Francis under the same name in 1932. Sophie Kerr. ...
All this gets me to thinking that L.M. Montgomery portrayed groups—specifically friend groups—better than almost any author I can think of. Think for a moment of the Story Club of Avonlea or the scholars of Patty’s Place. What a joy it is to see young women in community actually get...
I bought this book at NY Comic-Con this year and it was sold to me as The Mummy meets Death on the Nile. Like most Millennial women, I love the 1999 movie, The Mummy. I haven’t read Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile but I know the jist so I was sold. I can say it is...
Social Learning, Social Justice: Reading Circles as Fora for Political Friendship and Civic Engagement 1) a face-to-face reading group of inmates held at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon, Wisconsin; 2) Oprah's Book Club , both the televised ... JM Pulczinski - The University of ...