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LeftCoastBec@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years ago

My reading tends to go in spurts. I love mysteries and suspense, poetry, history, cookbooks, bios, photography collections (ok, anything.). I’m open to any recommendations, especially trying to discover and read great BIPOC authors.

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reviewed The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz: The Plot (Paperback, 2022, Celadon Books)

Good writing, but not that suspenseful.

Interesting story, and good writing. But the villian was telegraphed fairly early in the novel, so there was not a lot of suspense.

Art Spiegelman: The Complete Maus (Paperback, 2003, Penguin books)

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive …

I read this as part of Banned Books week. (It came out long after I had graduated from school.) It should be required reading for students (at least at the Jr. High level and above), and for politicians.

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Deborah G. Plant: Barracoon (Paperback, 2020, Amistad)

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old …

This story of Zora Neale Hurston interviewing one of the last then-surviving slaves kidnapped from Africa was not published during her lifetime because she refused to change his dialect to something easier for white audiences. It is truly gripping to hear him tell his story in his own words.