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Kit Bakke

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Seattle WA

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Literature & Fiction, History, Young Adult

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for fiction: Austen, Tolstoy, Byatt, Piercy; nonfiction: McCullough, ...more

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Kit Bakke spent the last half of the 20th century as a political radical (SDS and the Weather Underground), a pediatric oncology nurse, and an information technology consultant. In the 21st century, she became a published writer. Her MISS ALCOTT'S E-MAIL has led to further writing adventures, including being a founding member of Seattle7Writers (www.seattle7writers.org) and a chapter in HOTEL ANGELINE. Her next book, DANCING ON THE EDGE, is a story of travel, discovery and possibly magic. Young teens, if they are good readers, like it, and so do adults. Her latest book PROTEST ON TRIAL: THE SEATTLE 7 CONSPIRACY "chronicles a significant, real-life slice of history, but it reads more like a well-crafted novel and reminds us that dissent--now ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 221 ratings · 66 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds 3.63 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing on the Edge 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dot to Dot 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices by Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author), Erica Bauermeister (Goodreads Author) , Deb Caletti (Goodreads Author) 3.30 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Parochial: “limited or narrow outlook”

A beach apart

One of the interesting aspects of traveling outside the US is to look at our country from a distance, through others’ eyes. Here is a thought-provoking example from London written by Terry Eagleton in his review of two books,The Madness of CrowdsandThe Problem of Everything.

“Because the US is a deeply parochial society, not much given to seeing itself from the outside, what seems o...

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Kit Bakke wrote a new blog post Parochial: “limited or narrow outlook” A beach apart One of the interesting aspects of traveling outside the US is to look at our country from a distance, through others’ eyes. Here is a... Read more of this blog post »
Dec 29, 2019 12:45AM · like
Kit rated a book it was amazing The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Another great outing with Richard Powers. His books (his mind) are incredible. They are novels, great stories, but you end up also learning a lot about topical things, like trees (The Overstory--current Pulitzer Prize winner) or in the case of The ...more
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Kit rated a book it was amazing Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Just finished Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone. A novel by a German woman (translated into English by Susan Bernofsky) about the African refugee influx into the EU in I think 2012-4 (before the Syrian refugees arrived). It's written from the ...more
Apr 21, 2019 09:44AM · like · see review
Kit added a status update: Been reading some Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark for the first time. I am very impressed with Murdoch's ability to juggle many characters and many ideas and still make it seem like a British summertime novel. the one I read is "The Nice and The Good."
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Kit rated a book it was amazing Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Cannot say enough good things about this book. Read it! whether or not you've seen the musical "Hamilton." Either way, it's an eye-opener. All the stuff they never taught you about the founding fathers and early American history, told in a highly ...more
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Kit rated a book really liked it The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A bit more dense than his most recent book The Overstory. Clearly an earlier book, not as tightly written as his later books, but wonderful all the same. About music and computers and people and love and destruction--all his usual interests.
Feb 09, 2019 08:32AM · like · see review
Kit rated a book really liked it The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Breezy but thoughtful travel account through ten countries who mostly scored high on happiness studies (per the World Happiness Database, based in Rotterdam--look it up, it's pretty interesting). Weiner is a foreign correspondent who claims to be ...more
Jan 01, 2018 09:23AM · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner <iframe id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Kit rated a book it was amazing The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook by Alice B. Toklas	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Found this in a neighborhood Wee Free Library box. Always had wanted to read it. Charming, ironic, delightful, understated stories of Miss Toklas and Gertrude Stein in France from before WWI through the end of WWII. She wrote it while recovering from ...more
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Kit rated a book liked it The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Her first real novel, very well crafted. I'm probably in the minority of fiction-reading American women when I say that I have read nothing else she's written except Truth and Beauty: A Friendship about her friend Lucy Grealy. But I like the fact ...more
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Kit rated a book it was amazing The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) by Jane Gardam	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'd not come across Jane Gardam's books before, and I've really been missing out! She's a terrific writer. She has a way of being spare and heartfelt in the same sentence. It's amazing how much she can convey to the reader--emotions, pictures, ...more
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