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A story that heals under its dark and depressing guise–The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
A story that heals under its dark and depressing guise –book review of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe When I first finished reading The Ballad of the Safe Café, there were many things that I did not understand. I knew immediately that the book reads like William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, another classicContinue…
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An Antiracist “Handbook”
How to Be an Antiracist is a “handbook” that combines memoir, storytelling, rhetoric, and persuasion on the same page. It is a book that realistically yet hopefully offers concrete solutions to the problems of racism. It is a book that tackles one of the most pressing issues of current society from a historical, theoretical, practical,Continue…
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A story of historical horror and human resilience–Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
A story of historical horror and human resilience –book review of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl I have always wanted to read this book but never had a chance to pick it up until recently, when I came across some research about the Holocaust and WWII. Even though I am now fourContinue…
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A single story and a definite answer to Chinese education–Little Soldiers
A single story and a definite answer to Chinese education –book review of Little Soldiers When I opened the book, I knew exactly what I was getting myself into—an American narrative that aims to help readers understand Chinese education and its drastic differences with the Western education. I knew the many things that Chu wouldContinue…
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Beyond human nature: the bitter truth of poverty and class differences–book review of The Pearl
Beyond human nature: the bitter truth of poverty and class differences book review of The Pearl Almost every introduction and book review focus on the nature of the book as a “parable about wealth and the evil it can bring.” As much as the book deals with greed, evilness, the danger of wealth, whatContinue…
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A deferred dream in a plain play–A Raisin in the Sun
What happens to a dream deferred? Coming from the famous poem of Langston Hughes, the title of the book sums up the central idea of the play—when a dream is deferred, it not only dries up like a raisin in the sun but is also capable of exploding. Surrounding a three-generation African American household,Continue…
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