Marc Said:

Help me pick out a summer reading book?

We Answered:

Thirteen reasons why

Dave Said:

Happy Confederate History Month! (Long article, not for the faint-hearted)?

We Answered:

Some falsehoods, but truer than the nonsense that they teach in school. That's another thing. It doesn't really matter what you think about the South. Changing history to make it a slavery issue, is just lying.

Wow. Cool it. I'm on your side. But specifically in 2 and 3. I got the idea that the Northern slaves that you were talking about about were factory workers. Unless you meant the slaves in border states, but my ancestors owned 6 slaves in Missouri and they were documented as treating them better than most. If that's the case, I can see where you're coming from. And in 3, you can't deny that slaves were required to follow their masters. You would have done better to make the argument that in the West, freed slaves chose to fight for the CSA. Overall this was really interesting.

Those are really interesting sources. And I've got to agree with you on *****.

Jean Said:

Is this biography good? Any grammar mistakes?

We Answered:

The info is good but when read aloud the sentences seem choppy. For example I would write, "His mother worked two jobs as a post-clerk and a quilt maker to support her family". Instead of Indian kid you should say Indian child. You should have a comma before quotations. The word business in the title should be capitalized. Collection of short stories should be "The Lone Ranger" and "Tonto Fistfight in Heaven".... Instead of he talks about you should put he writes about. When quoting a passage you need to put the title of the passage for example..."Quote", from the short story, "Title". Instead of e.g. you should type for example.

-Good Luck

Daryl Said:

Consider the adjectives "absolutely true" and "part time".?

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I haven't read the book, so this may be way off, but I see clear contradictions in both those phrases, put there deliberately to draw the attention of a potential reader or book-buyer.

Isn't a diary, by its very nature, true? If it weren't true, would it even be a diary? So why did the author include "absolutely true" in the title?

Since being an Indian is genetic rather than voluntary, is it really possible to be a part-time Indian? (Yeah, I get that he probably mastered acting like the white kids at school.) This seems like a second sit-up-and-take-notice contradiction designed to intrigue the buyer.