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Week 19: Progress Post
By Zaz , Mood Minion · 13 posts · 65 views
By Zaz , Mood Minion · 13 posts · 65 views
last updated Oct 26, 2015 09:12AM
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Week 19: Introduction
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By Zaz , Mood Minion · 14 posts · 161 views
last updated May 08, 2015 04:03PM
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I picked this book up because Overdrive offered the book for some monthly reading shindig. I hadn't gotten around to it until this month. I'd read a couple of books that involve incarceration and such, so this sounded interesting.
While the book is mostly about one specific prisoner, Larry Newton, there is some autobiographical elements from the author, Laura Bates. What I do like about this book is that it isn't exactly activism. Bates is actually very careful about the message she's sending, an ...more
While the book is mostly about one specific prisoner, Larry Newton, there is some autobiographical elements from the author, Laura Bates. What I do like about this book is that it isn't exactly activism. Bates is actually very careful about the message she's sending, an ...more
The premise of this book was fascinating, and I found some of the stories fascinating and uplifting. It was the overly pompous and exaggeratedly self-agrandizing tone and style of the entire work that left a very bad taste in my mouth.
I started this book as part of the "Big Library Read" on Overdrive. I simply couldn't get in to this book and actually had to stop reading it.
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Dec 26, 2012
Michelle Adams
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