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September 2020
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The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
There’s a little sense of dissonance when I read a classic and my response is “huh, okay.” This is especially true when I rea...
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September 2020
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White Mughals by William Dalrymple
I have a lot of admiration for this author’s Nine Lives, and The Anarchy is highly informative. But this book is supposedly a...
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August 2020
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Daughters of the Sun by Ira Mukhoty
This is an interesting book about the women related to the Mughal emperors. I wound up disenchanted with it and think that it...
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The New One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
I’m not entirely sure how to rate this book. The text is incredibly short: about the length of a magazine article. The takeaw...
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El Norte by Carrie Gibson
This is a very informative book about the Hispanic role in North American history, from the first arrival of the Spanish in t...
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Madame President by Helene Cooper
I picked this book up primarily because I loved the author’s memoir, The House at Sugar Beach, about growing up in Liberia un...
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Heavy by Kiese Laymon
This is a well-written short memoir about the author’s family, body, and experiences as a black boy and man in America. Kiese...
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July 2020
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The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
This is a very informative book about a piece of American history that many of us don’t fully understand, even if we think we...
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