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“He breathed in my face the coffee he’d just drunk, mingled with the odor of his gums.”

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

August 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

1970s Naples: a thirteen year old girl of privilege is suddenly removed from her seaside home and returned to a cramped and dirty apartment outside the city.  The key word here is “returned”; our heroine has been sent “home” to a place that she never knew. She spent her entire life living with her glamorous mother and policeman father, only to have that reality shattered in one afternoon when the man she knew as her father bundles her and all of her belongings into the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, domestic violence, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, ebook, Education, europa edition, family, generational trauma, Italian language, Italy, L'Arminuta, Naples, Sisters, translated

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, domestic violence, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, ebook, Education, europa edition, family, generational trauma, Italian language, Italy, L'Arminuta, Naples, Sisters, translated ·
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In which A Square contemplates the universe

Flatland by Edwin Abbott

August 1, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Flatland is broken up into two parts. In the first A Square explains to the reader his universe which is called Flatland, a two dimensional world. There are only two dimensions in Flatland: one that runs North to South and one that run West to East. All women are Lines and there is a separate caste system based around the number of sides one has. In such system, the lowest caste are isosceles triangles, for how can one be worthy of respect if they are […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Education, Edwin Abbott, geometry, mathematics, Satire, social satire

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Education, Edwin Abbott, geometry, mathematics, Satire, social satire ·
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If only this one would have stuck to the shelf

Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

August 1, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

The cover is bright orange and there is some textural variety with a strip of duct tape across the front; the title Made to Stick fills a third of the cover. It’s a very interesting and attention grabbing cover. Unfortunately, that is where my interest stopped. Throughout the book, Chip and Dan, brothers, explain that in order for an idea to be sticky (that is, in order for your audience to remember your idea and care about it) it must be simple, unique, concrete, credible, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, communication, creativity, Education, ideas

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, communication, creativity, Education, ideas ·
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On racial, ethnic, and cultural identity development

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.

July 19, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

First, I am white. It is important to mention that so that I can also identify all the privilege that I brought with me to reading this book. In the twentieth anniversary edition of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Tatum starts with a 72 page prologue detailing all the ways that race, racial identity development, and race relations have played a part in modern history since the original writing of the book. It is extensively research and meticulously organized. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., cbr12bingo, Education, non fiction, Ph.D., PhD, Psychology, race in america, race issues

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., cbr12bingo, Education, non fiction, Ph.D., PhD, Psychology, race in america, race issues ·
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From Survivalist to PhD

Educated by Tara Westover

April 18, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

“The music ended. The girls glared at me as we left the stage – I had ruined the performance – but I could barely see them. Only one person in that room felt real to me, and that was Dad. I searched the audience and recognized him easily. He was standing in the back, the lights from the stage flickering off his square glasses. His expression was stiff, impassive, but I could see anger in it.” Educated is a memoir like I’ve never read before. Throughout […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Education, Tara Westover

randirock's CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Education, Tara Westover ·
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