Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman “I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!” Oh, a graphic novel sounds fun, thought I at the beginning of the month as I headed to my local bookstore to purchase one. I'll ask the staff
The Science of Racism by Keon West "I personally would much rather live in a world in which every White man wanted to lynch me, but none of them had the power to do it, than a world in which no White men wanted to lynch me, but every
Brick Lane by Monica Ali Another year, another abandoned book. Finally an update from last year: last month I visited Wilby and did indeed go and visit the "pig-ones" as promised last January when I read MaddAdam. I started this book when I was working in Bethnal Green
Absolution(Anderson & Costello #1) by Caro Ramsay Tartan noir - a popular genre of dark, gritty Scottish crime fiction. This particular example was set in Glasgow with sections taking part on the Ayr coastal road. These were the sections I related to. It helped that I was reading this
The Chalk Box Kid - by Clyde Robert Bulla An unusual chapter book, certainly. This book definitely had an atmosphere, it was bleak and grey. If depression was a book, this might be it. I felt sad just reading it, but surprisingly Ella was pretty engaged. The story itself was