Monthly Archives: June 2011
Review: Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
Format: Paperback Published on: October 4th 2000 Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 416 ISBN: 0374526222 Goodreads I wasn’t sure whether to post a review about Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards’ book, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. Manifesta basically amounts to a “feminism 101” type book. I think the fact that…
What Makes a Book Feminist?
Some time ago, there was outrage about a post on Bitch Magazine’s blog. The post in question, 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader, contained several books that early commenters objected to. While I’m not very familiar with most of the books in question, I believe the objections stemmed from the belief that…
Review: Against The Stream: Growing Up Where Hitler User To Live by Anna Elisabeth Rosmus
Translated by: Imogen von Tannenberg Format: Hardcover Published on: October 28th 2002 Published by: University of South Carolina Press Pages: 160 ISBN: 1570034907 Goodreads Anna Rosmus was a student in the early 1980s when she was entered into an essay contest about her hometown during Nazi rule. Born into a middle class Catholic family,…
Review: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Paperback Published on: January 14th 1995 Published by: Vintage Pages: 224 ISBN: 0679763309 Goodreads In her memoir An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Kay Redfield Jamison describes a time during her undergraduate career when she was tutoring a blind student. After knowing the blind student for a while, Jamison feels…
Booking Through Thursday: Soundtrack
Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks a book related question. Participants post the answer on their blog and then comment on the entry. This week’s question: What, if any, kind of music do you listen to when you’re reading? (Given a choice, of course!) I’m actually someone who needs absolute silence…
What @santacruzweekly got wrong
On Tuesday, Daniela Hurezanu posted an article about Book Expo America posted an article titled “Book Expo’s Sorry Turn” on SantaCruz.com. Obviously, bibliogrrrl is a brand new blog, I’ve never attended BEA, so I can’t comment on what went on at this year’s convention. However, I think that I can comment on the egregiousness…
Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Format: Paperback Published on: September 1st 2007 Published by: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: 552 ISBN: 0375842209 Goodreads “The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is…
Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Format: Paperback Published on: September 1st 2006 Published by: Harper Perennial Pages: 162 ISBN: 0061139378 Goodreads When Coraline moves into a new flat with her parents, she finds a locked door that leads to nowhere. That is, until she discovers that the door actually leads to a flat very much like her own in…
Books Read in 2010
Here’s what I read in 2010. 1. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 2. I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block 3. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 4. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous 5. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen 6. Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton 7. Shelf…
Books Read in 2009
Some backstory: I’ve started keeping a list of the books I read over the course of the year in 2009. Around the same time, I started writing down thoughts of some of the books I’ve read in a notebook. I thought I’d start off by posting most of these “reviews” here on bibliogrrrl. It…
