From the Bookshelf of Diversity in All Forms!…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (February 2023)
By Mariah Roze · 2 posts · 18 views
By Mariah Roze · 2 posts · 18 views
last updated May 17, 2023 10:35AM
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (March 2023)
By Mariah Roze · 2 posts · 11 views
By Mariah Roze · 2 posts · 11 views
last updated Mar 06, 2023 08:42AM
showing 1 of 1 topics
view all »
Other topics mentioning this book
What Members Thought
Room, by Emma Donoghue, is a book about deep trauma: a teen kidnapped and locked in a shed in the kidnapper's backyard. She has a child who, when the story starts, is about to turn five.
This is a story about survival under terrible circumstances. It's about being "scave" (being both scared and brave), about escaping only to discover that the strength you'd seen before doesn't translate well to the outside. It's about recovery.
It's about the little things that now stick in your craw. Breastfeed ...more
This is a story about survival under terrible circumstances. It's about being "scave" (being both scared and brave), about escaping only to discover that the strength you'd seen before doesn't translate well to the outside. It's about recovery.
It's about the little things that now stick in your craw. Breastfeed ...more
I am so so so tempted to give this five stars, but something in me just can't do it.
What can I say - I ate this book up. It sometimes takes me a good week to read a book, but I was through this in less than a day, foregoing sleep in order to finish it. I loved how the book was from the perspective of Jack. Although the language is juvenile - that is exactly what you would expect from one living in his conditions.
Everything Ma did was fair enough, but she annoyed me at times. It was just a bit h ...more
What can I say - I ate this book up. It sometimes takes me a good week to read a book, but I was through this in less than a day, foregoing sleep in order to finish it. I loved how the book was from the perspective of Jack. Although the language is juvenile - that is exactly what you would expect from one living in his conditions.
Everything Ma did was fair enough, but she annoyed me at times. It was just a bit h ...more
Aug 02, 2013
Jaclyn~she lives! catching up on reviews~
marked it as to-read
Jul 27, 2015
Nuzhat
marked it as to-read
Oct 12, 2015
Penny Schmuecker
marked it as to-read
Dec 09, 2015
Kate
marked it as to-read
Feb 02, 2016
Jenna Dewey
marked it as to-read
Oct 05, 2016
Jeana
marked it as to-read
Nov 24, 2016
Shelli
marked it as to-read
Apr 05, 2017
Jocelyn
marked it as to-read
Sep 07, 2017
Nashmil
marked it as to-read
Oct 15, 2017
Tiffanie
marked it as to-read
Mar 26, 2018
Sarah Shahin
marked it as to-read
Aug 04, 2019
Hend
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
21-female-authors-should-be-reading
Sep 19, 2019
Paul Oppenheimer
added it
Dec 13, 2020
Quimby
marked it as to-read
