Despite the simplicity of that premise, Mustakeem’s concise monograph exposes how the focus on young and able-bodied African men as the predominant population of captives held in slave ships overshadows the experiences of the “forgotten” of the transatlantic slave trade. In the introduction of her new book, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Sowande’ Mustakeem, writes that, “not all slaves endured the transatlantic passage in the same way.” That statement serves as the driving force behind an unflinching exploration of the “multiplicity of sufferings” endured by aged, infirm, and infant Africans carried across the Atlantic and into slavery. And, while I will never have the expertise, style, and prose that made Annette Gordon-Reed’s review of Robert Parkinson’s The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution so good, I do hope this review will explore the central ideas of Slavery at Sea in anticipation of a Q&A between the author and The Junto’s own Rachel Hermann tomorrow. Writing a book review a day after Karin Wulf’s entertaining analysis of what makes for a good review might be hubris at its worst, or simply bad timing. Sowande’ Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016).
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Brief Summary of Book: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.Īt the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. I never feel like I can play along with the sleuths at their own pace.ĭespite my issues, Balliett does a wonderful job cramming Chasing Vermeer full of all sorts of disparate facts and figures. The coincidences just seem to coincidental to me and I am either frustrated by the fact that I knew who the culprit/murderer was from the start or I never saw it coming. Over the past twenty-five years I have dabbled in everything from Agatha Christie to Ayelet Waldman's Mommy-Track mysteries and I just can't get over the way mysteries play out. For some reason, I can suspend my disbelief to read a fantasy or science fiction novel but I cannot do this when reading a mystery. Before I go any further I have to state a personal quirk as an adult reader. While Konigsburg focuses on the interior lives of Claudia and to some extent, her brother Jamie, Balliett focuses on Calder and Petra, classmates and awkward new friends who are brought together by a series of odd coincidences. Chasing Vermeer is, above all else, a mystery story where as From the Mixed-up Files is at its heart a story about personal growth, emotional connections and change. Although both books concern mysterious or disappearing works of art by well known artists, the similarities end there. It is so hard for me to read Chasing Vermeerby Blue Balliett without thinking of EL Konigsberg's masterpiece, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs basil E Frankweiller. |