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The Power of Architecture by Annette Roeder, illustrated by Pamela Baron

Source: Media Masters Publicity Hardcover, 64 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate The Power of Architecture: 25 Modern Buildings from Around the World by Annette Roeder, illustrated by Pamela Baron, offers a taste of what modern architecture looks like and can do. From a small city contained in a beehive-shaped apartment building to airport terminals […]

Guest Post: Lari O’Dell, author of Mr. Darcy’s Phoenix

First, please let me apologize that this post was meant to be posted on Aug. 30, but due to some family emergencies and other issues, it didn’t get posted during the blog tour. I humbly apologize to Ms. O’Dell. I want to welcome Ms. O’Dell to the blog today with her guest post about Mr. […]

Mailbox Monday #698

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

HAIR: From Moptops to Mohicans, Afros to Cornrows by Katja Spitzer

Source: Media Masters Publicity Hardcover, 40 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate HAIR: From Moptops to Mohicans, Afros to Cornrows by Katja Spitzer is a look at hairstyle from as long ago as 300 years or more. In the opening pages, there are images that look like noodles, but they also could be clipped pieces […]

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Source: Gift Hardcover, 240 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, which was the August read-a-long, is the first poetry collection by the youngest poet laureate to read at a presidential inauguration. Her poems read much like a spoken word poet would recite them. She plays a lot […]

Mailbox Monday #697

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Final Week: Amanda Gorman’s Call Us What We Carry Read-a-Long

For this last week, we read the final sections of the collection:Fury & Faith and Resolution. Here are a few questions to get us started: In Fury & Faith, Gorman again takes the poetic form and upends it, placing it onto the stripes of the American flag. What are your thoughts on this use of […]

All the Rivers Flow into the Sea and Other Stories by Khanh Ha

Source: the author Paperback, 210 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate All the Rivers Flow into the Sea and Other Stories by Khanh Ha, winner of the EastOver Prize for Fiction, are stories in which cultures seem insurmountable until there’s an undercurrent of emotion the breaks through those external barriers. Underneath these stories is the […]

Mailbox Monday #696

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Week Three: Amanda Gorman’s Call Us What We Carry Read-a-Long

For this 3rd week, we read the Atonement section. Here are a few questions to get us started: 1. What was your favorite poem in this section? 2. Erasure poems modify current text to create something new or highlight a particular theme. What impact does this form have on these poems? 3. Gorman offers a […]