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By Book Riot · 90 posts · 1679 views
last updated Dec 31, 2020 02:39PM
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Read Harder 2017: All Ages Comic
I am sad I waited so long to read this book. We got it from the library before Christmas break and it has taken me a few weeks to pick it up. Don't make the same mistake I did. Get this book and read it now.
I was moved to tears reading the story of John Lewis' life. Like me, he grew up in Alabama and came to Nashville for college. But how otherwise different are our lives. I read the story of the Nashville lunch counter sit ins with tears rolling down my face. Ho ...more
I am sad I waited so long to read this book. We got it from the library before Christmas break and it has taken me a few weeks to pick it up. Don't make the same mistake I did. Get this book and read it now.
I was moved to tears reading the story of John Lewis' life. Like me, he grew up in Alabama and came to Nashville for college. But how otherwise different are our lives. I read the story of the Nashville lunch counter sit ins with tears rolling down my face. Ho ...more
Bought a copy at Powell's in Portland (CORRECTION: this was from Books with Pictures. You know it's a good vacation when all your indie bookstore visits start to blur together.)
Well written, balances personal memoir (especially loved seeing young Bob preaching to his chickens) with wider political/social context. Doesn't shy away from the ugliness of the Jim Crow era or the violence (verbal and physical) that pro-segregation whites inflicted on nonviolent protestors. Good conversation starter f ...more
Well written, balances personal memoir (especially loved seeing young Bob preaching to his chickens) with wider political/social context. Doesn't shy away from the ugliness of the Jim Crow era or the violence (verbal and physical) that pro-segregation whites inflicted on nonviolent protestors. Good conversation starter f ...more
I don't know much about Rep. John Lewis, so I'm excited to hear his story. I've already learned things--like, I didn't know that the lunch counter protestors refused to pay bail or fines to get out of prison, choosing instead to stay jailed rather than continue to fund a broken system. Unfortunately, too much of this is extremely relevant right now. The more things change, the more they stay the same. It does want me to give a copy to anyone who's got problems with peaceful protestors right now,
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Timely and inspiring.
A great, readable, engaging glimpse into the early life of Representative John Lewis and how he rose to become instrumental in the Civil Rights movement. I never knew a lot about Rep. Lewis before, and I'm sorry I missed out. His story is powerful. I can't wait for the other two volumes to come in at the library already. Then it's time to read his full book about it, Walking with the Wind. The art is good. The story is powerful, as I said. The history is important. Read this book.
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Am going to wait until I finish all three books before writing much, but wow, this is powerful stuff.
