Category Archives: Drama

The People We Don’t See

By Tracie | Published: February 25, 2010
Precious Jones is the exact opposite of your typical literary heroine. She is overweight. She is black. She is poor. She is illiterate. She is sixteen and pregnant with her father’s second child. Push by Sapphire is the exact opposite of escapism. Push is the deepest, darkest of realities that no one wants to think [...]
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Multi-Generational Stories? Too Much for my Attention Span

By Tracie | Published: January 19, 2010
The Island by Victoria Hislop is about four generations of women who all bear the weight of the shame that comes with a small island, Spinalonka, off of Greece. Spinalonka is an island where people who are effected with leprosy go to live so that they do not contaminate the larger population. The story begins [...]
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Lifetime Meets a Book

By Tracie | Published: January 12, 2010
Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda is about Mary Guevara who is a victim of mistaken identity when she is wrongly accused of being a cocaine queen. After the charges are dropped, the consequences of her ruined name are devastating as she loses her job and her child. She takes matters into her own hands by [...]
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Helping Other Folks Out While Saving Yourself

By Tracie | Published: November 16, 2009
In I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, Ed Kennedy is a bit of a loser. I think that we all know the type: lonely, friends are misfits, not very good with the ladies. Kennedy is a cab driver and doesn’t seem all that interested in doing anything else. He’s in love with a girl [...]
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The Help: Not Just Black and White

By Tracie | Published: November 13, 2009
The Help by Kathryn Stockett is about three women in 1962 who become united through writing. The book is set in Mississippi where black maids and their white bosses have a very interesting relationship that was taken as status-quo until the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement does not play a prominent role in [...]
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