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June 23
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Sarah
is currently reading:
World Without End (Hardcover)
by
Ken Follett
bookshelves:
book-club,
currently-reading,
fiction
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Sarah
gave  to:
Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino (Hardcover)
by
Kim Fellner
bookshelves:
culture,
labor,
non-fiction,
politics
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Sarah said:
"Interesting book by a veteran labor activist about the pros and cons of Starbucks. She concludes that on most issues Starbucks really is a better corporate citizen than most -- although she calls them out for union busting. It's a thought-provoking r...more
Interesting book by a veteran labor activist about the pros and cons of Starbucks. She concludes that on most issues Starbucks really is a better corporate citizen than most -- although she calls them out for union busting. It's a thought-provoking read for anyone who's ever taken a knee jerk anti-Starbucks line (thinking back to the dozen page thread on CU when the Short North Starbucks was first announced...and yeah, I posted in that thread).
Doubt I'll trade in my regular Luck Bros. stop for Starbucks as a result of this book, but it was a good read.
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June 20
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Sarah
gave to:
The Beats: A Graphic History (Hardcover)
by
Harvey Pekar
bookshelves:
culture,
non-fiction
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June 19
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Sarah
gave to:
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood (Hardcover)
by
Said Sayrafiezadeh
bookshelves:
non-fiction,
politics
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June 15
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Sarah
gave to:
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Hardcover)
by
Bethany Moreton
bookshelves:
culture,
labor,
non-fiction,
politics
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read in June, 2009
Sarah said:
"I think it could have been organized differently to make it clearer -- at times the thesis seems buried in the accretion of details about Wal-Mart newsletters from the 70s, free enterprise student clubs, etc. But overall a very interesting piece of h...more
I think it could have been organized differently to make it clearer -- at times the thesis seems buried in the accretion of details about Wal-Mart newsletters from the 70s, free enterprise student clubs, etc. But overall a very interesting piece of historical work about how certain ideological and religious tendencies combined with a particular regional culture to change the economic and political culture of the entire country. Recommended to anyone interested in how we got to where we are now.
And quite a little surprise at the end when the author name-checks Donna Steele, an IP and 1199 member! Seems she read the George Packer article in the New Yorker last fall that profiled Donna ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/... ). (less)
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Sarah
gave  to:
Body Check (Blades #1)
by
Deirdre Martin
bookshelves:
fiction,
sports
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Sarah said:
"Ironic birthday gift from a friend.
Not sure I can give it a fair review since I'm not familiar enough with romance novels (that was my late grandmother's specialty) to know how it rates by the conventions of the genre. The ending was teleg...more
Ironic birthday gift from a friend.
Not sure I can give it a fair review since I'm not familiar enough with romance novels (that was my late grandmother's specialty) to know how it rates by the conventions of the genre. The ending was telegraphed far from the end of the book, but maybe that's to be expected?
It was pretty much like reading a book-length hockey slash story without teh ghey buttsecks.(less)
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June 06
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Sarah
gave to:
Dear American Airlines: A Novel (Hardcover)
by
Jonathan Miles
bookshelves:
fiction
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June 05
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Sarah
gave to:
My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion---How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream (Paperback)
by
Matt Diehl
bookshelves:
culture,
music,
non-fiction
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read in June, 2009
Sarah said:
"The topic looked interesting when I found this book at Half Price Books, but it just wasn't very well written at all.
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June 03
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Sarah
gave  to:
Stole This from a Hockey Card: A Philosophy of Hockey, Doug Harvey, Identity And Booze (Paperback)
by
Chris Robinson
bookshelves:
cancon,
non-fiction,
sports
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