This month the Book it Sisters Read Twleve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Published 1853, 363 pages Book it Sisters’ Grade: Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one … Continue reading
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This month the Book it Sisters Read The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, Published June 2010, 416 pages. Book it Sisters’ Grade: Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 … Continue reading
This month the Book it Sisters Read The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, Published April 2010, 233 pages. Book it Sisters’ Grade: A- Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to … Continue reading
This week the Book It Sisters reviewed Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card. Published May 2005 442 Pages Book it Sisters’ Grade: B+ As one of the most consistently exciting writers to emerge in the last twenty-five years, Orson Scott Card has … Continue reading
Today the Book it Sisters reviewed Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Published 1961, 324 pages Book It Sisters’ Grade: In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children … Continue reading
Yesterday the Book it Sisters reviewed The Christmas Visitor by Anne Perry (Published October 2004, 199 pages) Book it Sisters’ Grade: B- Renowned for her acclaimed Victorian novels as well as a stunning new series set in World War I, Anne Perry consistently … Continue reading
Today the Book it Sisters reviewed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye by Rachel Joyce (Published July 2012, 320 pages) Book it Sisters’ Grade: A Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old friend in order … Continue reading
Today the Book it Sisters reviewed Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks (Published January 2006, 368 pages) Book it Sisters’ Grade: B The day the brochure came was a typical one. With a wife and five small children, … Continue reading
Today the Book it Sisters reviewed The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (Published 1950, 328 pages) Book it Sisters’ Grade:A- When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter Sophy … Continue reading
Today the Book it Sisters reviewed The Anatomy of Peace:Resolving the Heart of Conflict by the Arbinger Institute (Published July 2015, 288 pages) Book it Sisters’ Grade Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute’s first book, The Anatomy of Peace … Continue reading