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  • Why The Marrow Thieves is YA, Dystopia, Fantasy, and Everything Else You Needed*

    Why The Marrow Thieves is YA, Dystopia, Fantasy, and Everything Else You Needed*

    Humans have lost the ability to dream, but one race has kept it; indigenous populations in North America. The novel begins as a boy, Frenchie, is saved from Recruiters, a group of people hunting those who can still dream, when his brother sacrifices himself. Alone, this indigenous young man sets out to survive in a […]

    NickNelson07

    September 30, 2020
    Reviews
    book, Book Review, cherie dimaline, climate fiction, dystopia, fantasy, indigenous fiction, Science Fiction, the marrow thieves, YA, YA fiction
  • “White Fragility” and Why It’s Your Next Book*

    “White Fragility” and Why It’s Your Next Book*

    Robin DeAngilo, a white, middle-class woman, writes about her experience consulting, educating, and facilitating discussions on race and social justice. As an expert that visits various workplaces and organizations, her role is to enter a group, discover the racial problem in its midst, and deescalate the experience into one of understanding and growth for every […]

    NickNelson07

    July 29, 2020
    Reviews
    book, Book Review, discussions on race, racism, robin diangelo, white people
  • Why Slavery’s Reach is the Book I Needed Most*

    Why Slavery’s Reach is the Book I Needed Most*

    Let’s check the receipts. Following slaveholder money and power in Minnesota, Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State by Christopher P. Lehman generates an image of pro-slavery Minnesota before and during the Civil War. Businesses ran by slaveholders and unfree workers went up and down the Mississippi river, granting freedom to slaves that […]

    NickNelson07

    July 15, 2020
    Reviews
    Black History, Book Review, Books, Christopher P. Lehman, History, Minnesota History, Slavery History, Slavery's Reach, Southern Slaveholders
  • Mighty Be Our Powers by Lehmah Gbowee (2011)*

    Mighty Be Our Powers by Lehmah Gbowee (2011)*

    Following the rise of violence and war in Liberia during the early years of the First Liberian Civil War, Lehmah Gbowee flees to escape her hometown. Juggling children, abusive partners, patriarchal politicians, and short bouts of alcohol abuse, Gbowee shows us that power comes from within. She leads organizations in peaceful protest against the corrupt […]

    NickNelson07

    July 1, 2020
    Nonfiction, Reviews
    Africa, Book Review, Civil War, Lehmah Gbowee, Liberia, Mighty Be Our Powers, Peace Activist, Peaceful Protest, Second Liberian Civil War
  • March Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (2013-2016)

    March Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (2013-2016)

    “I was thinking of you. I was thinking of you and Martin. I was thinking about the years of work, the bloodshed… the people who didn’t live to see this day.” Ted Kennedy to John Lewis In one of the last lines of this comic book trilogy, it reads, “I was thinking about the years […]

    NickNelson07

    June 10, 2020
    Reviews
    Andrew Aydin, Books, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Comic Book Review, Comic Books, John Lewis, March, March on Washington, March Trilogy, Nate Powell, Review, Selma to Montgomery
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

    Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

    “This book is over 100 years old, why are you writing a review on this?” When times become tough, this is the work I always come back to reread. Some people have the Bible, The Harry Potter series, or The Office, but I always reread Alice in Wonderland. A classic story that stood the test […]

    NickNelson07

    June 5, 2020
    Nonfiction, Reviews
    Alice in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, Curiouser, Lewis Carroll, Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Queen Victoria, War of the Roses, Wonderland
  • Stonewall by David Carter (2005)

    Stonewall by David Carter (2005)

    In this nearly definitive work on the Stonewall Riots of 1969, David Carter combines interviews, newspapers, radio shows, pamphlets, and various other media to generate as clear a picture around the riots as possible. Greenwich Village in 1969 was already changing, but when riots started outside the Mafia-operated Stonewall Inn, the queer community started a […]

    NickNelson07

    May 29, 2020
    Reviews
    1969, Book Review, David Carter, Greenwich Village, LGBTQ, LGBTQ History, New York City, Queer History, Riots, Saara Aalto, Stonewall, Stonewall Inn, Stonewall Riots, Wild Wild Wonderland
  • Lake Street Riots v Stonewall Riots

    Lake Street Riots v Stonewall Riots

    After just finishing one (1) book on the Stonewall riots, I cannot help but relate the events from June 1969 to what is happening now in Minneapolis. I cannot claim any sort of expertise on the subject, but here are two comparisons I discovered. The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back Police brutality isn’t new. […]

    NickNelson07

    May 28, 2020
    Nonfiction
    Ahmaud Arbery, Amy Cooper, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, justiceforgeorge, Lake Street Riots, Minneapolis, Politics, Raeisha Williams, Rioting Divided, Social Justice, Stonewall Riots, Tyrone Williams
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1 (2005) Still 100%

    Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1 (2005) Still 100%

    Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an […]

    NickNelson07

    May 27, 2020
    Reviews
    100% Rotten Tomatoes, Aang, Avatar, Entertainment, Katara, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Review, Sokka, The Last Airbender, TV Shows
  • Stardew Valley (2016)

    Stardew Valley (2016)

    Farmville and Animal Crossing meet the graphics of early Pokemon games in Stardew Valley. Harvest your produce, catch the best fish, mine the expensive gems, explore the village, becomes friends with the locals, and fall in love all in this short but expansive game. Your character receives a farm in your grandfather’s will, his old […]

    NickNelson07

    May 22, 2020
    Reviews
    8-bit, Animal Crossing, Entertainment, Farming, Farmville, Pixel Art, Pokemon, Relaxing, Review, Stardew Valley, Video Game, Video Game Review
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