In the finale of the Red Rising trilogy, Darrow and the Sons of Ares rise to battle for control of Mars - and other planets in the modern system too. Their goal is the end of government based upon class distinction and birth caste. The battle is mighty.
While Red Rising was about character development and Golden Son was about political positioning, Morning Star is completely about the war: battles, fighting, blood, death, strategy and survival. Who can you trust, and who must you kill? But also, is it all worth it?
This book has twists and heartbreaking betrayals, and just when you think you know how it will end, it twists again. Oh!
What a great series, overall. Highly recommended!
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Port Chicago 50
by Steve Sheinkin, Audiobook Read by Dominic Hoffman
This is an oft-forgotten story of WWII. Sheinkin tells it in a heartbreaking manner with this children's book. In fact, I had not heard the story at all before the book became a sensation in educational discussion lists.
During WWII, black servicemen were still segregated from their white peers. At Port Chicago in San Francisco, those lines were strictly drawn. Only the black men loaded bombs. All the officers were white. After a horrendous explosion killing more than 300 men, several black sailors became afraid of returning to duty.
Initially, more than two hundred of them refused unless the conditions surrounding their work improved. When told the punishment for mutiny was death, all but 50 agreed to go back to work.
This book chronicles the trial and controversy that followed.
This is an oft-forgotten story of WWII. Sheinkin tells it in a heartbreaking manner with this children's book. In fact, I had not heard the story at all before the book became a sensation in educational discussion lists.
During WWII, black servicemen were still segregated from their white peers. At Port Chicago in San Francisco, those lines were strictly drawn. Only the black men loaded bombs. All the officers were white. After a horrendous explosion killing more than 300 men, several black sailors became afraid of returning to duty.
Initially, more than two hundred of them refused unless the conditions surrounding their work improved. When told the punishment for mutiny was death, all but 50 agreed to go back to work.
This book chronicles the trial and controversy that followed.
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
In 1960's Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter Phelan is about to become an outcast. She has returned from college just filled with ideas about fairness and the difference between right and wrong. She soon finds herself a job and realizes she knows absolutely nothing about the topic she is supposed to use for her column. The only solution is to befriend the help, but she can't possibly do that in her mother's home. It doesn't take long before she has an idea that will change the lives of everyone she knows, if she and her new friend have the courage to go through with it.
The Help is the story of three women looking at the world in which they live and feeling as though something is terribly wrong. This is a well-written story that leaves the reader desperate to know more about the lives of nearly all the characters. It's funny when you realize you are so wrapped up in the characters experiences you almost forget what you already know about history and get surprised by one or two events.
In 1960's Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter Phelan is about to become an outcast. She has returned from college just filled with ideas about fairness and the difference between right and wrong. She soon finds herself a job and realizes she knows absolutely nothing about the topic she is supposed to use for her column. The only solution is to befriend the help, but she can't possibly do that in her mother's home. It doesn't take long before she has an idea that will change the lives of everyone she knows, if she and her new friend have the courage to go through with it.
The Help is the story of three women looking at the world in which they live and feeling as though something is terribly wrong. This is a well-written story that leaves the reader desperate to know more about the lives of nearly all the characters. It's funny when you realize you are so wrapped up in the characters experiences you almost forget what you already know about history and get surprised by one or two events.
Monday, January 24, 2011
The other half of my heart
by Sundee T. Frazier
OK, so the most historic days of civil rights in in American history took place before I was born. Even still, I remember learning about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks in school. This book talks about that history a little, and shows how individuals can still sometimes feel less than whole when surrounded by people whose skin is another color. The twist in Frazier's novel is that it is a story of twins born to one white parent and one black parent. One girl appears black, the other appears white. Minni, the blue-eyed redhead has always admired her sister's outgoing personality and never questioned how Kiera feels as one of the very few black children in their community. Suddenly, the girls are to spend part of their summer visiting their grandmother in the deep south. The purpose of the trip is the Miss Black Pearl Program (pageant). Now Minni begins to question her own strength and ability to embrace both sides of her ancestry.
OK, so the most historic days of civil rights in in American history took place before I was born. Even still, I remember learning about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks in school. This book talks about that history a little, and shows how individuals can still sometimes feel less than whole when surrounded by people whose skin is another color. The twist in Frazier's novel is that it is a story of twins born to one white parent and one black parent. One girl appears black, the other appears white. Minni, the blue-eyed redhead has always admired her sister's outgoing personality and never questioned how Kiera feels as one of the very few black children in their community. Suddenly, the girls are to spend part of their summer visiting their grandmother in the deep south. The purpose of the trip is the Miss Black Pearl Program (pageant). Now Minni begins to question her own strength and ability to embrace both sides of her ancestry.
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