poverty

It Could Work If We Are Open To It

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

February 8, 2019 by ASKReviews 2 Comments

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 | ASKReviews's CBR11 Review No:7 |

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

Tante Ulrikkes vei by Zeshan Shakar

November 21, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

#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, […]

11/21/2018 Malin'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

September 17, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

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 […]

9/17/2018 BlackRaven'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

August 13, 2018 by dAvid 1 Comment

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 […]

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

How the Other Half Lives

My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante

June 13, 2018 by Ale 2 Comments

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 […]

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

The Outsiders

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

April 4, 2018 by Ale Leave a Comment

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 […]

4/4/2018 Ale'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

October 17, 2017 by Ale 8 Comments

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 […]

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

“No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.”

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

July 22, 2017 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

In April of 2017 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. I am relieved to discover that, because the idea that there was a better, more eloquent, well researched, and presented book released in the competition period I would have eaten my hat. Or your hat, I have trouble finding one that fits me. Desmond is a Harvard sociologist and a MacArthur “Genius” grant winner, which is shorthand for this dude is awesome (he’s in the same class as Ta-Nehisi Coates). This book is based on his research and creation […]

7/22/2017 faintingviolet's CBR9 Review No:40 |

Classic on Not as Good as ChristieYup the cover is really nice. It seems a lot of reviewers weren't into this one.
Classic on See Into the Beast👍🏽
Scootsa1000 on “I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it’s there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.”I suggest the following plan of attack: have a few feel-good books ready for when you finish Sadie. I jumped right into the new Christina...
faintingviolet on “I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it’s there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.”My brother bought this for me for Christmas and I'm super excited it keeps getting positive reviews. I tried to read the articles about the...
Tracy on See Into the BeastJust popped by to say I also loved Vincent :-)