New Youtube Video: The Caribbean Irish
New Youtube Video:
Link: https://youtu.be/VSiQ8o13c2Q
Description:
This week I am teaming up with John Hunt Publishing and Chronos Books to bring you a book preview for The Caribbean Irish by Miki Gracia.
Book Previews Coming Soon: More to be added! Check back for these videos!
Subscribe, like, comment…You know what to do. Let me know what you want to see and I will try to make it happen.
My Thoughts:
Book: The Caribbean Irish: How the Slave Myth Was Made
Author: Miki Gracia
Rating: 4 Out of 5 Stars
I would like to thank the publisher, Chronos Books, for being so kind as to think of me again. I would like to send a shout out to Ben and Sarah for sending me an ARC of this book.
I’m just going to put this out there: I had no idea there was such an Irish presence in the Caribbean. Mikki introduced a completely new topic to me and I love that. I love learning new things and being exposed to things that aren’t often talked about. Whenever I think of the historical Caribbean I always think of the Spanish and the African slave trade. I had no idea that something similar was going on with the Irish.
This book couldn’t have come at a better either. For those of you who don’t know, I teach fifth grade history. We are getting ready to talk about the Caribbean and the impacts that European exploration had on the region. This will be a nice little add on for my students. It’s not talked about at all in our program, which don’t even get me started on that. This book will help give my students a little extra edge. Not only we will be talking about a subject that isn’t hardly spoken of this book does a nice job of explaining the difference between a slave and indentured servant.
I love how easy this book is to read. I’ve already said that I didn’t know anything about this subject prior to reading this. Like with all books I’ve read by this publisher, it is super easy to read and everything is explained very nicely. You can jump into this book without knowing anything and walk out with a feeling that you’ve learned something. This is what I like in my nonfiction. I like being able to easy read it and learning at the same time. The everyday language and easy to follow format makes this read more like a novel than anything. I guess what I’m getting at is we don’t have that dry textbook read here.
I also liked that we got to see some everyday people. A lot of times history just focuses on the upper class. I get it: we have more records about the upper class than the lower class. Here, it’s almost like Mikki does the opposite. We get to experience history through the poor and rougher ends of society. Now, the Church is involved a lot in the book and I believe that’s where a lot of the refences came from, but still. I give this book a round of applause for including all aspects of life.
Overall, I am very happy that I read this. It’s an easy to read book and isn’t very long at all. It’s only 240 pages.
This book comes out on December 1, 2019.
For Business Inquiries: Aphrodite-venus-u.k@hotmail.com
Publishers, authors, and companies-I do take requests for reviews, interviews, product endorsements, and etc. Check on my livejournal page for more information as to what content I am looking for. Dates do fill up quickly-I only like to feature on thing a day so you aren’t overlooked.
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/AlysonSeren...
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Link: https://youtu.be/VSiQ8o13c2Q
Description:
This week I am teaming up with John Hunt Publishing and Chronos Books to bring you a book preview for The Caribbean Irish by Miki Gracia.
Book Previews Coming Soon: More to be added! Check back for these videos!
Subscribe, like, comment…You know what to do. Let me know what you want to see and I will try to make it happen.
My Thoughts:
Book: The Caribbean Irish: How the Slave Myth Was Made
Author: Miki Gracia
Rating: 4 Out of 5 Stars
I would like to thank the publisher, Chronos Books, for being so kind as to think of me again. I would like to send a shout out to Ben and Sarah for sending me an ARC of this book.
I’m just going to put this out there: I had no idea there was such an Irish presence in the Caribbean. Mikki introduced a completely new topic to me and I love that. I love learning new things and being exposed to things that aren’t often talked about. Whenever I think of the historical Caribbean I always think of the Spanish and the African slave trade. I had no idea that something similar was going on with the Irish.
This book couldn’t have come at a better either. For those of you who don’t know, I teach fifth grade history. We are getting ready to talk about the Caribbean and the impacts that European exploration had on the region. This will be a nice little add on for my students. It’s not talked about at all in our program, which don’t even get me started on that. This book will help give my students a little extra edge. Not only we will be talking about a subject that isn’t hardly spoken of this book does a nice job of explaining the difference between a slave and indentured servant.
I love how easy this book is to read. I’ve already said that I didn’t know anything about this subject prior to reading this. Like with all books I’ve read by this publisher, it is super easy to read and everything is explained very nicely. You can jump into this book without knowing anything and walk out with a feeling that you’ve learned something. This is what I like in my nonfiction. I like being able to easy read it and learning at the same time. The everyday language and easy to follow format makes this read more like a novel than anything. I guess what I’m getting at is we don’t have that dry textbook read here.
I also liked that we got to see some everyday people. A lot of times history just focuses on the upper class. I get it: we have more records about the upper class than the lower class. Here, it’s almost like Mikki does the opposite. We get to experience history through the poor and rougher ends of society. Now, the Church is involved a lot in the book and I believe that’s where a lot of the refences came from, but still. I give this book a round of applause for including all aspects of life.
Overall, I am very happy that I read this. It’s an easy to read book and isn’t very long at all. It’s only 240 pages.
This book comes out on December 1, 2019.
For Business Inquiries: Aphrodite-venus-u.k@hotmail.com
Publishers, authors, and companies-I do take requests for reviews, interviews, product endorsements, and etc. Check on my livejournal page for more information as to what content I am looking for. Dates do fill up quickly-I only like to feature on thing a day so you aren’t overlooked.
Links:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicZ...
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/AlysonSeren...
Livejournal: http://serenastone.livejournal.com/pr...
Fictionpress: https://www.fictionpress.com/u/773118...
Fanfiction: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2489110/...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-te...
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Teacherspayteachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/S...
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