Blurb submitted by Tyrell G.
Original Gangstas is nonfiction
This book is about how rap went from being a fun, funky, upbeat type music, to a hardcore, "real life" type music. The book talked about how N.W.A changed the rap game by rapping about what is going on in the streets. They did not sugar coat anything. They influenced other rappers to talk about what they see in the streets. They also revealed how the police were treating Black people in their hit song. It made people take a stand against police, and people across the nation tried to pursue equality. It also talked about Tupac and his road from superstar success to unfortunate tragedy.
West Coast rap evolved from being a baby brother of East Coast rap to becoming the most popular genre of music in the late 80s and early 90s. West Coast rap was often called “Gangsta Rap" because of the hardcore lyrics in the songs. Rappers did not mean it in any way to harm anyone. They were just rapping about what they saw every day in the streets. The would rap about drugs, guns, prostitutes, and liquor.
This book helps explain how the lives of rappers were back then, that just because they rap about guns and drugs does not mean anything. They just want you to grasp what their lifestyle is about.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Monday, December 18, 2017
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
Blurb submitted by Austin S.
Scar Tissue is nonfiction
Scar Tissue is a book about the singer named Anthony Kiedis, who is in the band The Red Hot Chili Peppers. He tells his story of growing up and doing drugs as a young kid. He had a major drug abuse and addiction issue that caused many problems for him down the road. His band helped him solve his issues with drugs after much trial and error.
In the first part of the book, Anthony explains how he had his first drug experience with his father when he was 11 years old and how long it went on. The second part is about how his band became popular, and he was doing severe drugs with his bandmate Hillel Slovak. After Slovak's death, Anthony did not attend the funeral. He was without his best friend and did not know what to do with himself; it caused more issues down the road for Anthony because his drug addiction became more severe. Finally near the end, as of December 24th, 2000, Anthony Kiedis is clean and sober.
It is a good book to read if you are interested in "The Red Hot Chili Peppers" or if you just want an interesting read. Through much trial and error with Anthony's life, he is still one of the greatest singers of all time. It is good to understand that even with the mistakes in your life, you can still become successful and achieve your goals.
Scar Tissue is nonfiction
Scar Tissue is a book about the singer named Anthony Kiedis, who is in the band The Red Hot Chili Peppers. He tells his story of growing up and doing drugs as a young kid. He had a major drug abuse and addiction issue that caused many problems for him down the road. His band helped him solve his issues with drugs after much trial and error.
In the first part of the book, Anthony explains how he had his first drug experience with his father when he was 11 years old and how long it went on. The second part is about how his band became popular, and he was doing severe drugs with his bandmate Hillel Slovak. After Slovak's death, Anthony did not attend the funeral. He was without his best friend and did not know what to do with himself; it caused more issues down the road for Anthony because his drug addiction became more severe. Finally near the end, as of December 24th, 2000, Anthony Kiedis is clean and sober.
It is a good book to read if you are interested in "The Red Hot Chili Peppers" or if you just want an interesting read. Through much trial and error with Anthony's life, he is still one of the greatest singers of all time. It is good to understand that even with the mistakes in your life, you can still become successful and achieve your goals.
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Blurb submitted by Connor C.
Ego is the Enemy is nonfiction
Ego is the Enemy focuses on helping people in life with tasks they think they are too good for. Ryan Holiday, the author, discusses many real-life events and things he achieved while maintaining a very good ego. Ryan never finished college. He dropped out of school when he was 19 years old. He wanted to become a writer and became one that a lot of people look up to. His work helps young students, mostly athletes, know what real life is about. Young kids these days think everything is about them and that everything revolves around them. In sports, for example, you will always have that one guy who thinks he is better and doesn't have to work as hard as other people.
Midway through the book, Holiday gives brief examples of how to overcome having a big ego and how you can become more successful in life if you help others before you make it about yourself.
I believe using examples from the book and putting them into your own life will greatly affect your life and others around you in many different ways. There is always something you can do to help someone no matter the circumstance. I recommend this book to young athletes because I strongly believe if you take examples from here it can turn your team around quickly.
Ego is the Enemy is nonfiction
Ego is the Enemy focuses on helping people in life with tasks they think they are too good for. Ryan Holiday, the author, discusses many real-life events and things he achieved while maintaining a very good ego. Ryan never finished college. He dropped out of school when he was 19 years old. He wanted to become a writer and became one that a lot of people look up to. His work helps young students, mostly athletes, know what real life is about. Young kids these days think everything is about them and that everything revolves around them. In sports, for example, you will always have that one guy who thinks he is better and doesn't have to work as hard as other people.
Midway through the book, Holiday gives brief examples of how to overcome having a big ego and how you can become more successful in life if you help others before you make it about yourself.
I believe using examples from the book and putting them into your own life will greatly affect your life and others around you in many different ways. There is always something you can do to help someone no matter the circumstance. I recommend this book to young athletes because I strongly believe if you take examples from here it can turn your team around quickly.
Monday, October 16, 2017
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
Blurb submitted by John B.
American Sniper is nonfiction
Chris Kyle finds it's not always easy to live his life by God, country, and family. He enlists in the armed forces to become a Navy Seal and is eager to fight and defend his country. Four tours in Iraq take a toll on him physically as well as mentally. He's torn between fighting alongside his fellow soldiers in Iraq and wanting to be home with his wife Taya. Dedication to his country and doing his part to protect our freedom and knowing he has a loving wife waiting back home keep him driven. It's his story of trials, triumph, loss, and heartbreak that will keep you intrigued.
American Sniper is nonfiction
Chris Kyle finds it's not always easy to live his life by God, country, and family. He enlists in the armed forces to become a Navy Seal and is eager to fight and defend his country. Four tours in Iraq take a toll on him physically as well as mentally. He's torn between fighting alongside his fellow soldiers in Iraq and wanting to be home with his wife Taya. Dedication to his country and doing his part to protect our freedom and knowing he has a loving wife waiting back home keep him driven. It's his story of trials, triumph, loss, and heartbreak that will keep you intrigued.
Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South by Don Yaeger
Blurb Submitted by Landon H.
Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South is nonfiction.
Turning of the Tide is a great book for any football fan, regardless of if you pull for Alabama or not. The author starts out by explaining how Paul Bear Bryant not only changed football at Alabama but how he changed it in the whole country and how his effects on the sport are still shown today. Paul Bear Bryant was known for his all-white football team, most of the teams in the South were primarily white but may have had 1 or 2 black players. This book goes on to tell about how Alabama would strictly not allow blacks to play, regardless of how much talent they had. Racism was alive and well in college football at this time until USC came to Tuscaloosa.
In 1970, the USC Trojans came to play Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Alabama was known nationwide for being the best team possibly ever. What made this game so big and publicized was that USC was starting all black players in their offensive backfield. Alabama came in highly favored and expecting a blowout. Arguably one of the best and most historic games in history, two former USC players help Yaeger tell the story of what happened before, during, and after the game. It was this game that changed the racial landscape of college football forever.
Using real examples and quotes from people that experienced this game and situation first hand, this book shares knowledge to any football fan. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about the sport we love today, college football.
Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South is nonfiction.
Turning of the Tide is a great book for any football fan, regardless of if you pull for Alabama or not. The author starts out by explaining how Paul Bear Bryant not only changed football at Alabama but how he changed it in the whole country and how his effects on the sport are still shown today. Paul Bear Bryant was known for his all-white football team, most of the teams in the South were primarily white but may have had 1 or 2 black players. This book goes on to tell about how Alabama would strictly not allow blacks to play, regardless of how much talent they had. Racism was alive and well in college football at this time until USC came to Tuscaloosa.
In 1970, the USC Trojans came to play Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Alabama was known nationwide for being the best team possibly ever. What made this game so big and publicized was that USC was starting all black players in their offensive backfield. Alabama came in highly favored and expecting a blowout. Arguably one of the best and most historic games in history, two former USC players help Yaeger tell the story of what happened before, during, and after the game. It was this game that changed the racial landscape of college football forever.
Using real examples and quotes from people that experienced this game and situation first hand, this book shares knowledge to any football fan. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about the sport we love today, college football.
Unbroken by Laura Hildebrand
Blurb submitted by Logan R.
Unbroken is nonfiction
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is about a boy named Loui Zamperini and his life as an Italian immigrant. In his early days, he is discriminated against for being Italian. No one likes him because he steals, drinks, smokes, and is constantly running from the police. He discovered his love and talent for running, and his brother trained him every day to help him better himself in the sport he loves.
He competes in many track events, winning nearly all of them, and finds himself in the Olympics years later. He won the Olympics and soon afterward he was drafted to the war were he flies fighter planes. He gets captured and is put in a Japanese concentration camp. He is rescued years later by the American forces and goes back to his family.
I am the type of reader who finds it hard to find a book you can dig into and actually enjoy. The rich contents and detail of this story drag you into the book and you can not put it down. I rate this book a 9/10 and am extremely satisfied.
Unbroken is nonfiction
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is about a boy named Loui Zamperini and his life as an Italian immigrant. In his early days, he is discriminated against for being Italian. No one likes him because he steals, drinks, smokes, and is constantly running from the police. He discovered his love and talent for running, and his brother trained him every day to help him better himself in the sport he loves.
He competes in many track events, winning nearly all of them, and finds himself in the Olympics years later. He won the Olympics and soon afterward he was drafted to the war were he flies fighter planes. He gets captured and is put in a Japanese concentration camp. He is rescued years later by the American forces and goes back to his family.
I am the type of reader who finds it hard to find a book you can dig into and actually enjoy. The rich contents and detail of this story drag you into the book and you can not put it down. I rate this book a 9/10 and am extremely satisfied.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Blurb submitted by Mara C.
The Bell Jar is fiction
Ester Greenwood is an extraordinary talented young woman, always receiving high marks from teachers, and having a hunger for knowledge. She moves from her hometown to pursue a career in journalism, accepted into an internship in New York City. The Ladies Day magazine is a paid internship aimed to encourage young woman to join the workforce, and Ester is seemingly the perfect candidate. Yet in 1953 she finds her self slowly going under, while being pulled in an infinite amount of different directions in her life. One by one she sees the options in her life disappear like figs turning black and dropping dead off the tree, simply because she didn't know which one to pick. Her mental health slowly begins to deteriorate as she finds herself torn apart by who she wants to be and who she thinks the should be.
The Bell Jar is what many believe to be Plath's own chilling story of her deteriorating mental state, starting as a young adult. Plath transports you into Ester's mind and blurs the lines between perception and reality.
The Bell Jar is fiction
Ester Greenwood is an extraordinary talented young woman, always receiving high marks from teachers, and having a hunger for knowledge. She moves from her hometown to pursue a career in journalism, accepted into an internship in New York City. The Ladies Day magazine is a paid internship aimed to encourage young woman to join the workforce, and Ester is seemingly the perfect candidate. Yet in 1953 she finds her self slowly going under, while being pulled in an infinite amount of different directions in her life. One by one she sees the options in her life disappear like figs turning black and dropping dead off the tree, simply because she didn't know which one to pick. Her mental health slowly begins to deteriorate as she finds herself torn apart by who she wants to be and who she thinks the should be.
The Bell Jar is what many believe to be Plath's own chilling story of her deteriorating mental state, starting as a young adult. Plath transports you into Ester's mind and blurs the lines between perception and reality.
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