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Unacceptable Privilege Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal
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Melissa Korn
Sandra Post
, September 15, 2020
All most of us knew about the 2019 college admissions scandal was that Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin had been arrested. They and, as it turns out, many others, tried to guarantee their kids would be admitted to select schools through any means necessary. Rick Singer, a college coach of many talents, led dozens of overzealous parents, down the path of illegal activities. Unacceptable takes us behind the scenes where we get to know Rick Singer, the ultra-wealthy families, and college coaches and counselors, who all compromised their souls reaching for the golden apple. This non-fiction story reads like a suspenseful novel yet is based on extensive research and literary talent in time-lining all the events that led to an FBI nationwide bust and trials. Korn and Levitz tell this story of how wanting the best for our children can be twisted into acts of desperation; how greed can manipulate otherwise honorable people to cross the line; and how the students we are trying to “help” become the victims of misplaced love. I recommend this book to college coaches/counselors, parents, and regular people, like me, who want a more complete picture of a shameful American scandal.
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The Pearl Diver
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Jeff Talarigo
Sandra Post
, April 17, 2018
1948- Japan - Young pearl diver has leprosy. Life as she knew it, dreamed it, loved it, is no more. In a time when people with leprosy were shunned by everyone, exiled to remote places, this story of Miss Fuji’s life in a leper colony is heart wrenching, inspiring, educational, and written in away that I was eager to get back to it each day. It reminded me of Philip Roth’s book, Nemesis, about the polio epidemic in America and how victims were also shunned and isolated. Both diseases today are treatable...we’ve come so far but in the 1940’s and 50’s, it was another story. Jeff Talarigo tells this story with tenderness, dignity, and beauty. His character development, the community of all types of people with leprosy, is so rich, kind and insightful. The story has stayed with me and that days a lot about a book.
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Quiet
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Susan Cain
Sandra Post
, September 21, 2015
"Quiet..." Is a book for everyone. I can't tell you how many conversations have resulted from bringing up this book!! Susan Cain does a great job of raising awareness of how it feels to be an introvert in today's world, how understanding both introversion and extroversion can make us appreciate the different ways in which people interact. Introversion vs extroversion in politics, education, church, relationships with partners and our children--- it's all there. I want every parent of young children to read this to better appreciate and support their introvert child. Book Groups- This is an amazing book - something for everyone!! Okay, I'll stop now, but I highly recommend!
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My Brilliant Friend
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Elena Ferrante
Sandra Post
, June 17, 2015
Elena Ferrante is a master storyteller. "My Brilliant Friend" eloquently and steadily unfolds the story of a friendship between two young girls In a poor Naples neighborhood in the 1950's. The story weaves the challenges of growing up, envying friends and loving them, class issues in poor communities and sacrifices people must make to survive, with various threads of changing times, domestic violence, gangs, status, love, romance, and young people finding their way. Ferrante's descriptions and writing style gently envelops readers as she takes us through time with Lenu and Lila and many others.
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
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Ann Patchett
Sandra Post
, June 15, 2015
Ann Patchett's memoir about her close friendship with Lucy Grealy is a heart-warming and heart-breaking story about a special friendship that begins after college and lasts until they are in their late thirties, ending as many stories must end. Lucy Grealy, brilliant, quirky, creative and self-destructive, lives a wild life strongly influenced by childhood cancer in her jaw and a lifetime of surgeries. Ann Patchett is the rock, the stable force in Lucy's life. I was drawn into the depth of their friendship because we've all known people like these two women who come into each other's lives and share a love and a bond that is rare. A touching story written by a master storyteller.
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The Residue Years
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Mitchell S. Jackson
Sandra Post
, February 16, 2015
Days after finishing this powerful autobiographical novel, I am still deeply affected. Thankfully, as I seek out the best way to tell you about The Residue Years, Mitchell S. Jackson has the words to blow you away. This is a story of growing up black in Portland, Oregon in the 1990's, in a world of crack cocaine, meth houses, an addicted mother, drug-dealing son, life with barely a chance of escape. The book jacket describes the story told with a 'breakout voice" and the "arrival of a writer set to awe." Raw, heartbreaking, a language of his own, characters so wrenchingly vivid, make this book one you will not forget. Read it and learn, hope, weep.
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My Favorite Things
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Maira Kalman
Sandra Post
, December 27, 2014
This is a book about noticing...and delight. Maira Kalman's favorite things make her 'gasp with delight' and as I read through the book, I found myself sharing in her innocent observations about the simple things around us. Her illustrations are full of color and whimsey and at the same time, a poignancy because the everyday items in our lives have so much connection to time and history. This illustrated book with Kalman's perfect commentary can be read in an hour or so, but the effect is longer. I've gone back to it several times and I want to create my own visual project of "My Favorite Things." The book is a keeper and a gift.
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