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Thanks! I'll check them out, though I'm not a big Bryson fan. A Short History of Nearly Everything bored me so bad.

Diary of Anne Frank is hella depressing, I'm not reading that again. Oo

I feel put upon. ;) I just dislike non-fiction so much, I dunno how I'm going to read an autobiography. Can someone recommend one that's short or intensely funny/interesting?

The fact of the matter is that as a half-Arab female you don't, at all, have precedence over a white male. In fact, you're less likely to be published in ...

Give North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell a go. :)

I'm usually a one-book-at-a-time also, but sometimes when a book isn't keeping my attention enough or I am introduced to a book that is short and quick, then I may ...

:D Some on the YWS already know my opinion of Jane Eyre, which is to say that I hate it. When I read the book, watched the film, watched the ...

It is definitely possible that new GM may be nominated who is not a JM as well.

I think some clarity is needed in terms of context. The entire final paragraph of Row's piece is this: Marcus' essay concludes: "The contract I signed? Not to stand by ...

So I actually read the article in question (I hadn't before because blah reading) and I think that, again, the use of "white" there was to reinforce that the discussion ...

If one or both of them weren't white, the discussion on a national, or international, scale would be a newer and thus more interesting discussion. And while the fact that ...

I agree that good literature should be supported regardless of gender, race, political and religious affiliations or anything else. However, diversity is important and generally speaking white males h

What I'm saying is that, no, I don't think the media shows what it thinks we will watch. I think the media chooses what it thinks we SHOULD watch, and ...

I'd agree with the premise, Zolen, except we still hear whenever a mass shooting happens in the USA. And that's definitely nothing new. The media is select in how it ...

The debate isn't about which one is more important. The debate is instead about WHY no one appears to care about Syria, Lebanon or anywhere else regularly in warfare or ...