Apr 23, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
by Mary Turck My philosopher daughter gave me a book written by a colleague: Jennifer Morton’s Moving Up Without Losing Your Way (University of Princeton Press, 2019). I found it both challenging (it is philosophy) and resonant with my own long-ago experience as...Apr 20, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Alison Emery Green Card Voices has a web site greencardvoices.com and several books they have put together. I read Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a St. Paul High School (Green Card Voices, 2017). This book contains 30 short essays written by...Apr 16, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Kate Havelin The End of Your Life Book Club (Knopf, 2012) turns out to be the right kind of reading for this uncertain era. I’m not a pessimist and don’t expect the virus to end my life anytime soon, although I know it’s possible. It’s more that Will Schwalbe’s...Apr 13, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By John McKenzie “Asian-Americans face new pretext for hatred.” That was the headline for one of the articles on the front page of the StarTribune for Saturday, March 28, 2020. Reading this article saddened me. It did not, however, surprise me, in part...Apr 9, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Wendy Brown-Baez The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy (Crown, 2015) is historical fiction based on the life of the daughter of abolitionist Captain John Brown. In this version, Sarah Brown painted maps on dolls to guide enslaved people to...Apr 6, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Lisa Albrecht I haven’t been able to write for my blog for weeks. It has felt incredibly hard during this virus crisis, but today’s thoughts might be a help to you and me. What has helped me survive? Warriors for the Human Spirit, a program with which I have been...