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I’d like to be/under the sea

The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden

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Zoey doesn’t have time to finish her schoolwork. It’s not that she doesn’t care – she does. It’s not that she isn’t smart – she is. But being responsible for the care of her three preschool siblings while mom’s working means she doesn’t have time for things that other kids have time for.  It would be easier for Zoey, she thinks, if she was an octopus. Eight legs to juggle her siblings and help around the house. The ability to camouflage when her teacher eyes her for her homework. Powerful defense abilities when her classmates start making fun of her […]

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2/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

It Could Work If We Are Open To It

Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionize Our Lives by Annie Lowrey

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Best for: Anyone interested in changing the world, addressing poverty, or fixing the ills of capitalism. In a nutshell: What would the world — or just the US — look like if every single person received money every single month. Regardless of need. Regardless of ability to work. Just to keep them at a baseline level of existence, out of poverty. Worth quoting (so much – sorry!): “We no longer have a jobs crisis … but we do have a good-jobs crisis, a more permanent, festering problem that started more than a generation ago.” “…we find no evidence that cash […]

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2/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (double Bingo!)

Tante Ulrikkes vei by Zeshan Shakar

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#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (this book is set at Stovner in Oslo, three stops away from where I live on the metro. It also concerns exactly the sort of pupils that I teach.) Two youths, both living in the same tower block in a suburb on the east side of Oslo, in Stovner (where the large majority of inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants). They start out going to the same high school. Starting in the year 2000, the framing device consists of these two teenagers, later young men, being asked to take part in a social studies survey, […]

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11/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:99 |

The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans

Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans by Tina M. Cho

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Based on a true story, Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans gives a softer view of a very true hardship the people of North Korea face. When a village in South Korea decides to secretly send balloons filled with rice to feed the hungry people of North Korea, they are faced with many obstacles: the other villagers do not want to give aide to the enemy. The North Korean soldiers could see the balloons and shoot them down. They do not know if the people get the food as everything is done in a way that […]

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9/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:359 |

She squeezes his fingers and he can feel her love travelling all the way down from her heart to his

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

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CBR10Bingo: Snubbed I first saw Kit de Waal’s name earlier this year on a couple lists of highly-anticipated new books for 2018. Since I rarely buy hardcover books and knew I’d have to wait a bit for The Trick to Time, I added her previous novel, My Name is Leon, to my wishlist and purchased it a few months later having finally found it in an English bookstore in Stockholm, of all places. After reading it, I can understand why people were excited for her new book. Beginning on the day his baby brother Jake is born in hospital, the […]

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8/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

How the Other Half Lives

My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante

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I revisited this book for class, and while the language and visceral imagery remained the same this time as it did on my first read, I was struck this time by just how much the theme of education ran through this story. For a general recapping of the story, here’s the amazon blurb: “Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex […]

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6/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

The Outsiders

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

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Capital ‘L’ literature puzzles me as I often feel that it’s a giant waste of time while I’m in the middle, but then I get to the end and reflect on it, and I realize that having read the book was worthwhile. This sentiment couldn’t be more true than my feeling on finishing “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” On a surface perspective, I read 350 pages in which nothing really happened and the characters went nowhere. But on a deeper inspection, the pages roil with meaning and even though the characters ultimately don’t have much of an arc, I walked […]

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4/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

The Poor Have Always Been With Us

White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

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HALF CANNONBALL! I picked this audio book off the shelf at a library wine tasting because of it’s catchy Title. I mean, how can you see the glaring title, “White Trash,” and not be intrigued? And I haven’t listened to an audio book in a while, so it seemed like a good idea. And it was, mostly. White Trash chronologically unpacks the history of white poverty in America from the 1600s to 2012. Isenberg begins with the English penal colonies where the British government literally rounded up hundreds of poverty stricken men and orphan boys and either pressed them into the […]

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10/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |


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