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06-10-2011, 09:52 PM
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| Summer Reading for Freshmen 2011
Let's start a new list of required summer reading for the incoming class of 2015
Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-10-2011, 10:23 PM
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University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-10-2011, 10:31 PM
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University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-11-2011, 08:51 AM
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University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-11-2011, 09:12 AM
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University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College--The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-11-2011, 09:33 AM
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University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College, Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-11-2011, 10:36 AM
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Let's go alphabetical!
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College, Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-12-2011, 11:20 AM
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Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-12-2011, 11:34 AM
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Miami University (OH) - "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
NC State - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-12-2011, 04:05 PM
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Marquette University -- "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore
Miami University (OH) - "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
NC State - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-12-2011, 04:07 PM
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I actually didn't know a lot about the title I just posted so I looked it up.
From Booklist:
*Starred Review* In 2000, Wes Moore had recently been named a Rhodes Scholar in his final year of college at Johns Hopkins University when he read a newspaper article about another Wes Moore who was on his way to prison. It turned out that the two of them had much in common, both young black men raised in inner-city neighborhoods by single mothers. Stunned by the similarities in their names and backgrounds and the differences in their ultimate fates, the author eventually contacted the other Wes Moore and began a long relationship. Moore visited his namesake in prison; he was serving a life sentence, convicted for his role in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of an off-duty policeman. Growing up, both men were subject to the pitfalls of urban youth: racism, rebellion, violence, drug use, and dealing. The author examines eight years in the lives of both Wes Moores to explore the factors and choices that led one to a Rhodes scholarship, military service, and a White House fellowship, and the other to drug dealing, prison, and eventual conversion to the Muslim faith, with both sharing a gritty sense of realism about their pasts. Moore ends this haunting look at two lives with a call to action and a detailed resource guide.
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06-12-2011, 06:35 PM
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Illinois Wesleyan University- "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Marquette University -- "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore
Miami University (OH) - "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
NC State - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
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06-12-2011, 08:06 PM
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Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha
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06-12-2011, 08:59 PM
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Vanderbilt--The Good Life, by Peter Gomes
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06-12-2011, 09:48 PM
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Ok, adding Wofford and Vanderbilt.
Illinois Wesleyan University- "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Marquette University -- "The Other Wes Moore" by Wes Moore
Miami University (OH) - "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Meredith College - Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
NC State - "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Northwestern University - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Reed College - The Odyssey
Smith College - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB):Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Dr. Temple Grandin.
University of Missouri -- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
University of Pittsburgh --Oryx and Crake
Vanderbilt--The Good Life, by Peter Gomes
Whitman College - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman
Wofford- Memoirs of a Geisha
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