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Curtis Sittenfeld
Rave The Seattle Times ...this is no political melodrama: It is a personal story and it is entertaining ... Rodham is a masterpiece for understanding how personality may just be at the heart of our political landscape ... The novel is sharpest when Sittenfeld weaves these real events in with incidents so believable that the reader wonders where reality and fiction diverge ... the characters are so perfectly tuned that they perform as an ensemble, drawing the reader ever deeper into their play, making it difficult to put down the book.
Christopher Ryan
Positive The Seattle Times While these examples illustrate how civilization has corrupted our initial nonaggressive human nature, Ryan doesn’t tackle any possible exceptions. There is not a word about the fate of the foraging Neanderthals, our closest relation in the Homo genus. They disappeared when foraging Homo sapiens came into contact with them. Could our own aggressive behavior account for their demise? ... While these examples illustrate how civilization has corrupted our initial nonaggressive human nature, Ryan doesn’t tackle any possible exceptions. There is not a word about the fate of the foraging Neanderthals, our closest relation in the Homo genus. They disappeared when foraging Homo sapiens came into contact with them. Could our own aggressive behavior account for their demise? ... a fascinating read, with plenty of academic references. But Ryan provides only a few concrete ideas of how to foster and preserve elements of our lost forager culture.
Naomi Klein
Positive The Seattle Times Reading Naomi Klein’s book...is similar to watching a mega-disaster movie in a theater. But you can leave your fears behind when credits roll and you exit the theater. Klein’s message is much more dire: our human-induced climate change is devastating our livable earth, we are stuck here, it is not safe, the house is on fire ... Unfortunately, she does not provide any country that rejects economic growth as a working model ... Klein provides the data and the vision. Her hope is to see a coordinated global movement to successfully reverse carbon consumption within each country—a challenge that will require something more than a book.
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Positive The Seattle Times Mona Hanna-Attisha’s account of that urban man-made disaster reads both as a detective story and as an exposé ... Her book reinforced my belief that the first step to becoming a citizen activist is seeing the world as it should be, not as it is given to you.