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Title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Author: Anne Fadiman Pages: 341 Two Sentence Summary: Three-month-old Hmong immigrant Lia Lee suffers from debilitating epileptic seizures. Talented doctors and loving parents aren’t enough to save her, however, because of the vast cultural [...]
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This week’s Weekly Geek Challenge was posted by Care. This week we’re talking about different review styles, an exciting topic if I do say so myself. You’ll have to forgive me, I’m finishing this post after midnight because I can’t seem to fall asleep and the late hour and finals brain drain is making me [...]
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In March and April, I asked my blog readers to vote on one book that I should be sure to finish during that month. I had fun with both of them, since they inspired me to read books that I have on my TBR list but keep putting off. The previous books readers helped select [...]
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When I think about why I love blogging, the first reason that comes to mind is the relationships I’ve built with other bloggers. So I think now is a good time to spread our blog improvement a little bit and try to help each other out. Week 9 for the Blog Improvement Project is to [...]
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I feel like I’ve acquired a ton of new books this week. Over the last few weeks I requested a lot of things from the library — the books on my shelves just haven’t been inspiring me. I’m on long wait lists for a few of them, but I guess the others were all in [...]
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Happy One Year Blogoversary!
by Kim on May 10, 2009 · 33 comments
Hooray! Today is my one year blogoversary! I wrote my Welcome Post for this blog on May 10, 2008, about a week before my college graduation, which doesn’t seem like it was a full year ago. In one year, I’ve written 254 posts. I’ve read 77 books, but not written quite that many reviews. I’ve [...]
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