The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls Simon & Schuster January 2006 304pp The Short of It: At its core, The Glass Castle is a story of survival which will break your heart and leave you cheering. The Rest of It: As I get older, I find that books mean more to me. The messages contained [...]
Filed under: Book Review, Life | Tagged: © 2011 Book Chatter, Coming of Age, Freshman Common Reading, Jeannette Walls, Memoir, Poverty, The Glass Castle | 31 Comments »
Better late than never, right? I JUST now picked up The Hunger Games. I know! The entire planet has already read it. I’ve had it for a long time but didn’t plan to read it until later in the year. However, I had some down time to fill and grabbed it and I am loving [...]
Filed under: Bookish Talk | Tagged: © 2010 Book Chatter, Freshman Common Reading, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games | 15 Comments »
Some of you have been following my posts about the One Campus, One Book selection for the university that I work for. The decision meeting was today and I had to miss it! However, my feedback was part of the decision process and the panel decided to go with The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Some [...]
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As a member of the Freshman Common Reading panel, which I previously discussed in this post, I agreed to read and review Mark Salzman’s True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall. I have to be honest, True Notebooks is not a book I would have picked up on my own. As far as childhoods [...]
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The University that I work for is in the process of selecting the Freshman Common Reading book for 2009-10. When I was asked to be on the panel, I jumped at the chance. One of the books being considered is The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Steve Lopez, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times discovers [...]
Filed under: Book Review | Tagged: Book Review, Freshman Common Reading, Nathaniel Ayers, Steve Lopez, The Soloist | 8 Comments »
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