Comments on: Day of Tears, Julius Lester

By: Miss K

Miss K — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:22:07 +0000

I really enjoyed your review and your take on this book. I’m going to check out the rest of your reviews now!

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Black North American Authors « Diversify Your Reading — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:45:43 +0000

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By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:08:27 +0000

In reply to Dana Huff. I'll have to try that! I do want to read more Julius Lester, but not right away - such topics require some recovery time. :p

By: Dana Huff

Dana Huff — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:54:12 +0000

I am a sucker for Victorian and medieval or Tudor England, though really I’ll read a lot of historical fiction. I’m with you on having a hard time with some topics like slavery or the Holocaust. I did read a children’s book by Julius Lester called From Slave Ship to Freedom Road that is very powerful. I have actually used it in my 10th grade American lit. courses, and they can’t believe it’s for children.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:12:44 +0000

In reply to Sadako. I hope you like it! I'm looking forward to reading Lester's other books. :)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:11:47 +0000

In reply to Jeane. I read an interview with Markus Zusak where he said that he'd grown up hearing these stories from his grandparents, and he wanted to write The Book Thief to tell those stories that you never hear about what life was like in Germany.

By: Sadako

Sadako — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:56:29 +0000

Haven’t read this one but it sounds really good! Will check it out soon.

By: Mumsy

Mumsy — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:19:21 +0000

In reply to Jenny.

No, you would not. It was kinda trashy – a total beach read – but the author had done her research and the historical part was cool.

By: Jeane

Jeane — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:15:48 +0000

You’re right; the Book Thief was a flipside of what I’m used to reading in Holocaust books. I forgot that for the moment. I do recall now that was one thing I really appreciated about the book in spite of being annoyed by the narration- that it was the opposite perspective than what I was used to.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:14:50 +0000

In reply to Kristen M..

Grrr, slavery makes me really angry. At my internship, I’m working on this huge book about slavery and the slave trade, and it’s really difficult to read. Just looking at the numbers of people captured and sold into slavery, and the numbers that died on the way over – awful. Asshole is putting it mildly. I would make an angry emoticon, but I feel like that would be trivializing.