Posts Tagged ‘library loot’

Library Loot: My Holiday Reading Stack

21st December 2009 by Deborah No Comments

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. Last week was quite a treat for me as several of the books I had on hold at the library came in.  Have I mentioned how much I love my public [...]

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Library Loot: October 22

23rd October 2009 by Deborah No Comments

So I decided to join in the fun and participate in Library Loot.  Library Loot is the brainchild of Eva and Marg.  Basically their plan is to encourage bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out of the library.  What fun! So here is my loot for the week.  I picked up a stack of [...]

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Book Review: Growing Where you are Planted

13th October 2009 by Deborah No Comments

Purple Hibiscus is a  beautifully written coming of age story of a 15 year-old girl  Kambili and her experience growing up in a repressive Catholic household in Nigeria. The story focuses on how Kambili and her brother find their voices despite the abuse of their father (who clearly struggles with his own internalized racism and [...]

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Book Review: From Jamaica to the US to Ghana

8th September 2009 by Deborah No Comments

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James This was a book that I did not want to read but could not put down.  The book was vivid, violent, infuriating and painful.  I sympathized with characters I did not want to like and despised the characters that I should have cared about.  James doesn’t allow [...]

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