Tag: Books
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Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
Prose and panes filled with humor and death that will make you laugh, cry, and nostalgic.
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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…
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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…
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Ms. Marvel (2015)
Introducing one of the newest Marvel heroes, Ms. Marvel. “Ms. Marvel,” you say. “Isn’t that just Captain Marvel’s name?” Well, yes. But no. This is Kamala Kahn, Pakistani-American Muslim from Jersey City. She’s just your typical high school student navigating teen life until a mysterious fog appears and gives her supernatural abilities, causing her to…
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Book Review: The First 10 Marvel Mystery Comics
Review of the first ten comics of Marvel Mystery Comics by Timely Comics (now Marvel). Most heroes are of the lesser-known sort, but these ten issues have been a wild ride.
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Award-Winning “All The Wild Hungers” by Karen Babine
Karen Babine has done it again, winning the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in Memoir/Creative Nonfiction. As the subtitle suggests (A Season of Cooking and Cancer), this book follows Babine’s experience cooking for her mother recovering from chemo treatment. Filled with familial anecdotes to make you laugh, cry, and question your own relationship with family, this…
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When You Ask Me Where I’m Going by Jasmin Kaur
Review of “When You Ask Me Where I’m Going” by Jasmin Kaur.
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Anna Ebers und St. Gallen
Heute haben wir Anna Ebbers getroffen. Sie ist eine Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Post Doctoral) bei Universität Sankt Gallen. Sie war sehr expressiv und ihre Englisch war sehr sehr gut. Sie spracht über ihre Umfrage des Nachhaltigkeit in der Schweiz. Sie haben viele Cantons gefragt über Nachhaltigkeit und ihre erneuerbare Energie. Ebbers’ Präsentation war sehr interessant und…
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