This book was given to me in a “swag bag” from some event or other that I participated in recently. I initially pooh-poohed the book away because I generally don’t read romance novels. But I found myself needing an easy, mindless read to pass the time on a long flight, so I decided to give this one a try. This is not my preferred genre, so maybe my expectations were particularly low, but I found the book better than I expected. I did not love […]
Classic Worth Revisiting
I recently read this as a read-aloud book with my 10 year old son. He found it at the library and thought it looked interesting, but found that the language was a bit confusing, so we decided to do it as a read aloud, so that we could stop and discuss whatever he did not understand. I had initially read this book years ago, and am glad that I had the opportunity to go back to it. I had forgotten how funny and rather exciting […]
Lovely Children’s Book for the Times We Live In
This review was written together with my 8 year old daughter, who has read the book over and over because she liked it so much. She first heard about the book at an author talk, and later asked to buy it when coming across it at a school book sale. She is a prolific reader, and considers this her favorite book. Amina’s Voice is a book for 8-12 year olds about a Muslim-American girl who just started 6th grade. Her best friend, a Korean immigrant, […]
A Comic’s Guide to Mastectomies
This is the book that I wish I had written. In fact, many of my friends and family did tell me that I should write it, but I was too slow, and Caitlin Brodnick did an amazing job of it instead. Ms. Brodnick learned at age 21 that she was BRCA positive. At age 28 she opted for prophylactic bilateral mastectomies, as a result of her family history. Ms. Brodnick spent some years engaging in self-destructive behavior in a effort to ignore her diagnosis. She did […]