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Wild Book Review
I feel like I am a bit late to join the group of people reading Cheryl Strayed’s popular memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Last year’s non-fiction sensation continues to be a best-seller. This week … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews/Book Reviews
Tagged backpacking, book reviews, Cheryl Strayed, hiking, memoir, non-fiction, Pacific Crest Trail, pilgrimage
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Road Trip to Ashland, Oregon
Last summer, when I read The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, I was left wondering what it would be like to have been the first audience to see one of these now famous plays. The plots and characters of Hamlet, … Continue reading
Posted in Becky's Adventures, Oregon
Tagged Ashland, Oregon, road trips, Shakespeare, slavery, theatre, travelogue
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The Language of Flowers Book Review
The Language of Flowers tells the story of Victoria Jones, an 18-year-old woman who has just been emancipated from a lifetime in the foster care system. Abandoned at birth, Victoria had been kicked out of numerous homes throughout her lifetime before … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews/Book Reviews
Tagged book reviews, fiction, flowers, foster care, women's fiction
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Book Review
I first read Anne Fadiman’s 1997 award-winning book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures over 10 years ago as assigned reading in a graduate level anthropology class. … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews/Book Reviews
Tagged anthropology, biomedical ethics, biomedicine, book reviews, ethnography, Hmong, nonfiction
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The Last Man Book Review
First published in 1826, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel about a future world ravaged by plague, written by the author of Frankenstein. The story is a first-person narrative told from the point-of-view of Lionel Verney, who grew … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, book reviews, classics, fiction, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, plague, Science Fiction
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