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book reviews/issues in education

Book Review: The Smartest Kids in the World, by Amanda Ripley (★★☆☆☆)

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Mark Isero

 Amanda Ripley knows how to write extremely well. In The Smartest Kids in the World, Ms. Ripley follows three American exchange students as they study in Finlan...

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Book Review: The Circle, by Dave Eggers (★★★☆☆)

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Mark Isero

 The Circle is definitely a page turner, a thriller, and I like its premise (or at least what I think its premise is): What would happen if Google, Facebook, an...

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Book Review: Quiet (★★★☆)

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Mark Isero

 People have told me that I’m an introvert, and so have a few Myers Briggs tests, but reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t S...

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Book review: My Beloved World (★★☆☆)

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Mark Isero

 I really like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She’s a hero. So that’s why I was really excited to read her memoir, My Beloved World. Althoug...

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Book review: The Fault in Our Stars (★★☆☆)

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Mark Isero

 I was supposed to like The Fault in Our Stars. I mean, it’s by John Green. It was Time’s fiction book of the year. It won Goodreads’s award f...

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