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A New York Tate of Mind
A New York Tate of Mind
In which this reader and explorer reviews books, muses on literary (and other) matters, and shares some of her adventures.
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My 1-5 rating system:
1 = I did not like it and would not recommend it.
2= It was fine. Read it if the subject matter interests you.
3 = I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
4 = I really liked it, and think you should read it!
5 = One of the best books I've read.
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Review: The Secret Rooms
1/5 stars The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, & a Family Secret, by Catherine Bailey (2012) False...
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Nov 13, 20232 min read
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Review: Butts, A Backstory
3/5 stars Butts: A Backstory, by Heather Radke (2022) Not my words but an apt, brief description - this book melds "history, personal...
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Sep 26, 20233 min read
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A Callery Pear Tree's Saplings
9/11/23 - 22 years later (Each section below has 100 words. This is part of a practice I've been trying to maintain of writing 100 words...
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Sep 11, 20234 min read
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Review: Let Me Go
3/5 stars Let Me Go, by Helga Schneider (2001) TW: Anti-Semitism, and graphic descriptions of Holocaust camps, including medical...
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Aug 15, 20233 min read
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Review: Barracoon
5/5 stars Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo," by Zora Neale Hurston (2018) Barracoon tells the story of Olualo Kossula, also...
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Jul 24, 20233 min read
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Review: Deaf Republic
5/5 stars Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky (2019) This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend two of RIT/NTID's Big Read events,...
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Apr 3, 20233 min read
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It Never Ends (a free-write)
TW: Gun violence in schools March 30, 2023 – morning free-write It never ends. It never ends. There’s a secret door to a secret room with...
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Mar 30, 20232 min read
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Are We There Yet... I made a book!
For the past year I've been working with a designer and 19 artistic friends to create a book: Are We There Yet? An Illustrated Journey of...
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Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Review: Under the Banner of Heaven
3/5 stars Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer (2003) I recently visited Salt Lake City (SLC), Utah for...
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May 2, 20223 min read
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Review: Nowhere Boy
3/5 stars Nowhere Boy, by Katherine Marsh (2018) This should be required reading for all middle grade students (middle school, or higher...
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Dec 18, 20211 min read
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Review: They Called Us Enemy
4/5 stars They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott, illustrated by Harmony Becker (2019) In this graphic...
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Nov 23, 20212 min read
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Review: Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh
3/5 stars The Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh, by Ho Chi Minh (1943) Translated from the Vietnamese by Aileen Palmer My mom is going through...
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Aug 20, 20212 min read
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Review: 12 Years a Slave
3/5 stars Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup (1853) This is the true story of one man's experience of slavery in the South, as a...
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Nov 17, 20202 min read
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Review: The Five
4/5 stars The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold (2019) It sounds morbid, but it's not....
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Nov 2, 20202 min read
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Review: The Yellow House
4/5 stars The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom (2019) I finished this book about two weeks ago, but have been putting off writing about it...
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Jul 21, 20203 min read
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Review: The Color of Law
4/5 stars The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein (2017) In The Color of...
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Jun 19, 20204 min read
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So You Want to READ About Race...
In light of the past weekend's unrest, and the past month's events, and the past centuries of systemic racism, I wanted to write a bit...
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Jun 1, 20204 min read
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3 comments
What To Read While Quarantined
There are so, so many amazing books out there that it can be really hard to narrow the list down and decide what you want to sink into,...
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Mar 30, 20205 min read
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Review: The Ghost Map
2/5 stars The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World, by...
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Mar 10, 20205 min read
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Review: Say Nothing
3/5 stars Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder & Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018) A sentence near the end of the...
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Jan 24, 20202 min read
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