Author: Debra Marquart
Book Details: I bought this book at a used bookstore a couple months ago based solely on the cover and the description on the book flap. I had read a few pages of it here and there put never really got into it. And then I picked it up again recently, started reading from the beginning, and became thoroughly consumed with her writing. I finished over half of the book in that first day, and the rest of it by the end of the week. She touches on a number of ideas around growing up in the Midwest that I am just beginning to dig up in my own writing, and she weaves it all together beautifully. I hope I am eventually able to do the same.
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subject: Home, Rural Midwest
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary
Author: Nelson Peery
Author Details: Michael had Nelson come talk to our class last quarter and read an excerpt from his forthcoming book. They met while Michael was teaching a writing workshop at The Guild, but it is clear that the relationship between the two is one of collaboration, of mutual respect in each others lives and work. It made me value the relationships I have that emulate this (Davi) and look forward to discovery of other such relationships.
Book Details: I've always had a hard time learning about history and politics because so much of what I've been taught has been dates, names, and events--the facts. And facts are never really that interesting to me unless they are grounded in a story, in a person. Reading Jane Addams biography earlier this year, I felt like I finally was able to begin to understand the time period that inspired her to create Hull House. Similarly, with Nelson memoir, I have a whole new understanding of American before and after WWII, especially from the perspective of the black men that served.
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subject: Standing Up
Buy from Publisher.
Also, his new book comes out next month.
Author Details: Michael had Nelson come talk to our class last quarter and read an excerpt from his forthcoming book. They met while Michael was teaching a writing workshop at The Guild, but it is clear that the relationship between the two is one of collaboration, of mutual respect in each others lives and work. It made me value the relationships I have that emulate this (Davi) and look forward to discovery of other such relationships.
Book Details: I've always had a hard time learning about history and politics because so much of what I've been taught has been dates, names, and events--the facts. And facts are never really that interesting to me unless they are grounded in a story, in a person. Reading Jane Addams biography earlier this year, I felt like I finally was able to begin to understand the time period that inspired her to create Hull House. Similarly, with Nelson memoir, I have a whole new understanding of American before and after WWII, especially from the perspective of the black men that served.
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subject: Standing Up
Buy from Publisher.
Also, his new book comes out next month.
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