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About Author: Kelly Buchanan

Description: Kelly Gesch Buchanan is a Lead Blogger with Compassionate U contributing book reviews, and serving as the CU resident librarian. An avid reader herself, Kelly is concerned with many world issues and shares books to engage in a dialogue surrounding writing, the human condition and compassion. Kelly's personal interests include feminism, music, animal welfare, and spirituality. She graduated from Villanova University with her Master of Arts Degree in English Literature and the College of Wooster with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Kelly will begin a graduate program in library and information studies at the University of Maryland, College Park in the fall of 2011.

Posts by Kelly Buchanan

April blues

Posted on May 1, 2012 | No Comments
In One Person-John Irving, (Simon & Schuster, 2012) Hello all. As you may have noticed, there was no new review for The Compassionate Bookshelf for the month of April. For...
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Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act

Posted on March 24, 2012 | No Comments
“Each year, about one out of every hundred animal and plant populations goes extinct.” “As part of a wave as old as the republic itself, the Endangered Species Act (1973)...
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The Quickening Maze

Posted on February 25, 2012 | No Comments
The Quickening Maze-Adam Foulds, (Penguin Books, 2009) “He loved lying in its lap, the continuing forest, the way the roots ate the rot of leaves, and it circled...
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Beautiful & pointless

Posted on January 20, 2012 | No Comments
Beautiful & pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry–David Orr (HarperCollins, 2011) “poets are constantly confronted not only with widespread ignorance about their art, but with the fact that anything...
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Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook

Posted on November 20, 2011 | No Comments
Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook – Carol J. Adams, Three Rivers Press, 2001. In choosing this particular book for November, we at CompassionateU have decided to highlight...
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The Feminist Promise

Posted on October 12, 2011 | No Comments
The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present–Christine Stansell (Random House, 2010). “But feminism, democracy’s younger sister, is easily shoved aside, dismissed as a chronicle of complaints that progress long ago...
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Ninth Ward-Jewell Parker Rhodes

Posted on August 31, 2011 | No Comments
Ninth Ward—Jewell Parker Rhodes, (Little, Brown and Company, 2010) When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States in 2005, the devastating human toll that would be taken in the hurricane’s...
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Little Bee

Posted on August 3, 2011 | No Comments
Little Bee—Chris Cleave, Simon & Schuster, 2010 I came to Chris Cleave’s marvelous Little Bee somewhat later than many. As an employee of a public library, I sometimes...
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Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, from Welty to Wharton—Richard Horan

Posted on July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, from Welty to Wharton—Richard Horan “In this day and age of tabloid...
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“C” a novel by Tom McCarthy

Posted on June 5, 2011 | No Comments
C a novel by Tom McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) From the outset, Tom McCarthy’s novel C puts the reader on uncertain ground. The dreamlike opening chapters of the work...
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