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Category Archive: Book Review

Reading Goals 2020

A stack of four books.
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The Backlist Reader Challenge: fifteen books I’ve been hoarding on my To Read shelf are getting read this year! 📚 #BacklistReader

January 3, 2020 Book Review, Finding Balance, Intellectual Freedom, Knowledge Creation, Reading for Pleasure, Social Networking, Uncategorized

Reader Response: Thank You For Your Service

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“Thank You For Your Service” was not optimistic or pessimistic, angry or trite. It was simply, overwhelmingly honest. Like, two boxes of tissues honest.

October 19, 2018 Book Review, deployment, Improve Society, military life, MilSpouse, Reading for Pleasure

Reader Response: War and Peace

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I loved War and Peace from the moment Pierre bumbled into scheming Anna Pavlovna’s party and proceeded to horrify everyone by fawning over Napoleon.

March 23, 2018 Book Review, Improve Society, Intellectual Freedom, Reading for Pleasure

Book Review: Ulysses

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I appreciate Joyce’s technique and experiments with style. I found his echoes of, and connections to, other literary works rather fun. I, in turns, enjoyed Joyce’s cleverness and found that cleverness eye-rollingly overdone.

February 25, 2018 Banned Books, Book Review, education, Innovation, Intellectual Freedom, Reading for Pleasure

Reader Response: Ulysses

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I look forward to doing a book review for Ulysses next, but a Reader Response based on my […]

February 17, 2018 Banned Books, Book Review, Innovation, Intellectual Freedom, Knowledge Creation, Motivation, Reading for Pleasure

Book Review: Praying for Sheetrock

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Melissa Fay Greene’s Praying for Sheetrock is a well-researched, detail-oriented, unhurried read about a tumultuous time in the history of McIntosh County, Georgia.

January 1, 2017 Book Review, education, Improve Society, Reading for Pleasure

Book Review: Sapiens

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The Vagabond Teen and I took Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari on the […]

July 18, 2016 Book Review, Inquiry, Knowledge Creation, Reading for Pleasure, Uncategorized

Book Review & Library Lesson: Tribe

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This book…will serve as a valuable learning tool to emphasize to young writers the importance of maintaining a clear main idea in their writing and of utilizing an organized system of citation to give credence to their work.

June 16, 2016 Afghanistan, Book Review, education, Improve Society, Inquiry, Knowledge Creation, Librarianship, military life, Reading for Pleasure, Uncategorized

Book Review: Antifragile

I tackled Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile slowly–both to reflect on Taleb’s ideas, and because reading this book is […]

March 20, 2016 Book Review, Improve Society, Innovation, Knowledge Creation, military life, New Libarianship, Uncategorized

Book Review: A Little Life

This review contains spoilers.   I am still emotionally reeling from A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It […]

February 16, 2016 Book Review, Reading for Pleasure, Uncategorized
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