by Cindy | Nov 21, 2009 | Nonfiction, Other
Rating: Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich. Metropolitan Books (2009), 235 pages. Ehrenreich is making all kinds of really excellent points in this book. Yes, being told you must...
by Cindy | Nov 15, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder. Random House (2009), 277 pages. Kidder tells the story in Strength in What Remains of Deo, a young man from Burundi who survives the Hutu/Tutsi massacres in 1994 and arrives in New York City with only...