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I fell in L-O-V-E with this book! It's a beautiful love story, but it’s also a love letter to art & music, to creativity, to Black history, to unapologetic…
Read more of this comment about ReelThis book is powerful in so many aspects. About growing up, it entails the feeling of being invisible, going through teenagerhood, dealing with conflicting…
Read more of this comment about When You Trap A TigerAfter enjoying Thao Lam’s new book “Thao,” I looked for others by the Vietnamese-Canadian author -- and discovered 2016’s wordless “Skunk on a String,” This enchanting…
Read more of this comment about Skunk on A StringOkay, let’s try solving an interesting basketball conundrum, shall we? (For those of you not into sports, I’ll make you a deal. I promise to keep the jock…
Read more of this comment about The Hot HandAn Open Letter to Emmanuel Acho, author of “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” Hello, Emmanuel After reading “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black…
Read more of this comment about Uncomfortable Conversations With…Soul Lanterns centers around a 25th memorial anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Focusing on 12-year-old Nozomi,…
Read more of this comment about Soul LanternsWho doesn’t love a good David and Goliath story? Eric Eyre, covering the opioid crisis for the Charleston Gazette-Mail in Charleston, West Virginia, aimed…
Read more of this comment about Death in Mud LickIs 2 a Lot? Depends on how you look at it. Crazy fun illustrations in this colorful book help put numbers in perspective. It’s a good lesson for little learners…
Read more of this comment about Is 2 A Lot?No trip to Washington D.C. is complete without a visit to Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This moving book is a wonderful…
Read more of this comment about Twenty-one StepsWow, what a ride! This book follows three different but intersecting plotlines. Ronan, Hennesy, and Bryde answer the call of the ley lines and fight the…
Read more of this comment about Mister ImpossibleAndrew McCarthy was asked for years to write a book detailing his experiences as a Brat Packer but declined, feeling it wasn’t something he really wanted…
Read more of this comment about BratI have read Matthew McConaughey’s book “Greenlights” and I honestly do not know what to think about it. On the one hand, Matthew McConaughey just might be some…
Read more of this comment about GreenlightsWhy isn’t Richard Thompson more famous? Some of you might be saying, “Who’s that?” See, my point is made right there. Richard Thompson is one of the greatest guitarists…
Read more of this comment about BeeswingBaseball may not be the national pastime anymore, but there’s something about the game that attracts the written word. Seems as though there are more baseball…
Read more of this comment about The Inside GameMy Brother’s Husband is the first manga I’ve ever read. I was little apprehensive at first because I wasn’t sure how the reading direction and style would affect…
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Yellow Bird
Perhaps it is wrong to generalize, but compared to the soft, cushy life many of us live, life on the New Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota seems…
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