Author: allison burris
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Published in 1963, Mary McCarthy’s novel follows eight young women following their college graduation (Vassar class of ’33). These women are educated and intelligent yet they are not immune from either the economic pressures of the Depression nor of societal pressures to be meek and fall in line. Without giving too much detail about any…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. This week’s feature has you choose books you’re going to read this fall. As you know, these are all by female writers and they’re a mixture of things on my Goodreads list and books from these two great lists (which would be…
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Rae of Bookmark Chronicles kindly nominated me for the Siblinghood of Bloggers Award. You should really check out her blog if you haven’t already. The award consists of: Thanking the person who nominated you Answering their ten questions in a blog post Asking ten new questions Nominating new people for the award These are my…
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The food in Donna Tartt’s book is an interesting mixture of the decadent (roasted lamb, exotic mushrooms, souffles, foie gras) and the hopelessly mundane school cafeteria food and bad coffee. Food helps delineate separate worlds of influence and privilege. As the protagonist, Richard, is largely an outsider, he notices the discrepancies between the displays of…
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In 8th grade when the other group of kids (in the other English class) was reading this book, we read The Outsiders, which is a fine book, but it doesn’t really hold a candle to Maya Angelou. I always felt that by not getting to read this book I was missing out, so I had to…
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Our last day island hopping was spent on the beautiful island of St Kitts. This was truly one of the most amazing places I’ve ever been to, and I hope that more people get the chance to visit this island as well as its sister, Nevis. We spent a large part of the day with…
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I listened to this book on a road trip with my grandparents. Nana and Papa came to visit us in Boise and then I drove back with them to spend more time with family and a girlfriend who flew in from out of town. The book was everything you could want from a trip read–it…
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