Monthly Archives: December 2015

Go Set a Watchman

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Andrea

Sometimes people are not who you think they are. Sometimes those very people are your own parents. Sometimes it’s yourself.

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My Ántonia

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Andrea

What is it like to arrive in a new country? To not understand a word that people are saying? This difficult journey is discribed with great feeling by Willa Cather in My Ántonia. Yet, it is not through Ántonia’s perspective … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading the World

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Andrea

Last week I stumbled across this TEDtalk by Ann Morgan about her 2012 journey of reading the world. In her “Year of Reading the World” Morgan read one book from every country in the world as a way to broaden … Continue reading →

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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeard

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Andrea

Wow, could a book get any stranger? Well, I guess it could, but The Hundred-Year-Old Mand who climbed out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson started out strange and just continued to get stranger. The plot built and built adding … Continue reading →

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Last Child in the Woods

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Andrea

In Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv talks about how the natural world is being lost to our children. No longer do children have the chance to roam around in the world of nature. They’re either too busy … Continue reading →

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