catherineofalx's reviews
603 reviews

I picked up the book because I knew the author in college, but it actually turned out to be a really good choice for a media apostle in training. Anyway, ban youtube.

Oh hey. I wrote this.

One of the best books I have ever read. Frederick Douglass is one of those people I somehow was never assigned in school but felt like I needed to read if I was going to consider myself educated and WOW I am glad I did. A breath of fresh air to go back to the sources when all the discourse about the Civil War today is so…. garbage. Everybody had a conscience, everybody knew. “The Color Line” could have been written yesterday and certain people would find it intolerably radical. You love to see it.

I laughed out loud at this book so often that I actually had to stop reading it after hours in order to maintain the Great Silence.

If you need a post-academic cathartic beach read, and you're okay with being super sad about capitalism while engaging in a beach read, this one's for you.

Some aspects of the book's handling of race didn't age well, but that's to be expected. Overall, a total scholarly treasure and actually fairly fun to read.

This book has a one-chapter bio of Tolton lifted entirely from Sr. Caroline Hemesath’s book, followed by chapters on completely random topics mostly lifted from bishops’ statements. Truly bizarre.

This is a novel, not a biography - but unlike most novelizations of saint stories, I actually really enjoyed and learned a lot from this one! Usually I find that frustrating, but here, I found it so human, so beautiful, so engrossing. Loved loved loved it.

I really wanted this to be good but it just had nothing interesting to say at all on the subject. The methodology was useful if uninspired, but the conclusions… men should not write about these things.

i hope she writes a million of these. i have an unquenchable thirst for northern virginia mom crime fic