I recently posted chapter II on my podcast in the above URL.

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It would be hypocritical of the United States to invade another country for the killing of civilians because the United States has a history of genocide of the first occupants, the Indians. The United States also has a second history of genocide of African American through making them move from town...

I really love how very masculine this book is. I love the part where Wednesday had to report a threat that the villian made in the limo and then ended it with the confession that he was not really listening which is a very funny male response. I love the casualness of the bank robbery as it was a th...

You can try and vote these kind of politicians out of office and replace them with better officals. Or run for office.

Good luck with your English skill. You seem pretty good at it.

Terrific research.

Also, I would like to add that the bet Shadow made is a reference to the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as told by the Knight in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon romance fairy-tale I believe.

Nice to meet you. I am near Philadephia. Look forward to talking books.

I would say The Shawl is a more ruthless version of Sophie's Choice. It is difficult to make these decisions because what if the boy went on to with a family that becomes more and more desperate and is forced to eat the boy who lost his protector and advocate. That why I feel that The Shawl is a bet...

Whoops, I guess my previous statement was too much of a generalization. I would probably add using unjustified physical force?

Cythinia Ozick's The Shawl and the Road would be two great stories to compare. The reason I say that is because both deal with the ruthless survival mechanism. In The Road, children are handed over to other families and recieved by other families as fodders for meat. The tribe with the orange banner...