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“Library: An Unquiet History” by Matthew Battles

Posted in History, Nonfiction, tagged , , , , , , on April 24, 2012 | 11 Comments »

It’s getting close to finals time, and one of my projects this semester involved a Library Journal style book review on a book about libraries.  I chose Matthew Battles’ “Library:  An Unquiet History.”  Personally, I find the style of Library Journal reviews to be unnecessarily constraining, so I thought I’d take a moment here to [...]

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“Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi

Posted in Memoir, Nonfiction, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »

“It became a habit with us, a permanent aspect of our relationship, to exchange stories.  I told them that listening to their stories, and through living some of my own, I had a feeling that we were living a series of fairy tales in which all the good fairies had gone on strike, leaving us [...]

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“The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday

Posted in History, Nonfiction, Poems/Ballads, tagged , , , , , , on September 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I read this book as a part of a class I’m taking this semester on multiculturalism and librarianship. The book is about Native American culture, specifically the Kiowa.  It tells the story of the author’s journey to visit his grandmother’s grave near Rainy Mountain.  Each page is split into three segments.  Momaday opens each section [...]

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“A History of Modern Russia” by Robert Service

Posted in Dead Russians, History, Nonfiction, tagged , , , , , , on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Since I’ve focused primarily on fiction thus far, I thought it might be nice to review one of my favorite nonfiction books.  Service does a fantastic job providing a recap of 20th century Russian/Soviet history that is both highly readable and well-researched. One of the biggest problems with history books about the Soviet era is [...]

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“Lenin’s Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand” by Michael Pearson

Posted in Biography, Dead Russians, Nonfiction, tagged , , , , , on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Inessa Armand is a fascinating historical figure.  She is most famous for her role as Lenin’s mistress, but was quite remarkable in her own right.  She lived during the late 1800s-early 1900s, at a time when women had few rights and little social mobility.  However, instead of living with that role, Inessa had an open [...]

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