Book Reviews

Book Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

February 27, 2013

This book bore a hole into my TBR list for years. My mother ranted and raved about how much she enjoyed the movie forever and a day, but I still hadn’t seen it. When I realized it was based on a best-selling book, I promised myself I’d read the book first. Midnight in the Garden [...]

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Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration rate of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs.

February 26, 2013

“Our focus is on the War on Drugs. The reason is simple: Convictions for drug offenses are the single most important cause of the explosion in incarceration rates in the United States. Drug offenses alone account for two-thirds of the rise in the federal inmate population and more than half of the rise in [...]

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Book Review – Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

February 12, 2013

“No matter how long you have your mother, it’s never long enough.” Diane McKinney-Whetstone is already one of my favorite authors of all time. Blues Dancing and Tempest Rising were novels that deeply affected me in my early 20s. So why did it take nearly five years to read Trading Dreams at Midnight? When it [...]

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