It’s time to take a new look at an author who wrote most of her work nearly 100 years ago! Edna Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel So Big. She also penned the book that’s the basis of the musical Showboat and two books made in to successful movies, Giant and Cimarron. However, very few modern readers know her name. All of her stories deal with racial tension and gender bias, topics rarely addressed so openly in her day but certainly […]
Race with a Capital R
In the last blog post, I mentioned I had a hard time finding a followup to 2 really good books I read last month. After rejecting ever book in my library TBR pile, I started rummaging through the multiple TBR piles around my house. (Tell me I am not alone in that!) In stack #2, I found a copy of a book recommended to me by a student a few years ago for consideration for summer reading. I never got around to reading it because […]
Spontaneously Combusting Seniors – it could happen!
Do you ever have a run of days where you just can’t get in to any books in your TBR pile? That happened to me last week. I finished both The Sun is Also a Star by Nicole Soon and Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer and just couldn’t find another book to make an awesome YA trifecta. Why you ask? The premise of Spontaneous is simple: high school seniors spontaneously combust in the oddest places like pre-calc and an SUV. What could possibly follow THAT? To read the rest of my review, […]
Another review of The Sun is Also a Star
I’m joining CBR for the first time with a book that’s absolutely amazing. I know it’s been reviewed a few times on this platform, but I thought I’d add my own review since I am a teacher an recommending it for our summer reading program. So many feels! This is a young adult book with some heavy themes. On the surface, it’s a romance between Natasha, a Jamaican born illegal immigrant facing deportation, and Daniel, a first born second son of Korean parents. The two, […]