A short-and-sweet look at the book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo. Half biography, half investigative reporting, Behind the Beautiful Forevers follows the lives of Mumbai trash pickers, a female slum lord, and their families. If you seek to better your understanding of worldwide poverty, this book is a good place…
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Favorite Books of 2023
It’s winter again, time to publish my list of favorite books of 2023! The books you read change the way you think about others and even make you smarter. (Here’s a fascinating article from The Guardian about how reading can actually raise your IQ.) They can help you grow not only in knowledge but in understanding those with whom you…
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The Forgotten Girls: A Mini Review
A mini review of The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America, by Monica Potts. Half memoir, half biography, The Forgotten Girls chronicles an Arkansas native’s attempt to trace the cause of the destructive spiral of her best friend’s life. Ms. Potts, who moved away from small-town Clinton, sees the rising death rates of rural white…
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Different: Sally and Nathan Clarkson
Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him, by Sally and Nathan Clarkson. This mini review features a book told in two parts, as mother and son take turns telling their story. In Different, Sally Clarkson and her son Nathan take turns telling their story of learning to live with and find the strengths in…
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Some Favorite Fiction of 2023
Most of my individual reviews tend to be of the nonfiction that I’ve read and thought through during the year, but I read a lot of fiction as well. These books are some of my favorite fiction of this year–or at least some of the most interesting fiction I read, in the case of the latter part of the list….
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