Disclaimer: I received an ARC via Netgalley. I also live in Philadelphia. Furthermore, I teach at the same college, same department, as one of the contributors. Despite being in Philadelphia for all my life, I have never heard of this series until this popped up on Netgalley. ...
Personally, I enjoy This I Believe II because it it a series of individual stories lived by real human beings all strung together. It is a written a way that I have never read before which makes it original and enjoyable.
There are some lovely and thought-provoking essays here, and I love that they're all short enough to read in just a few minutes, and that you can read just one or two essays at a time and then put the book down for weeks without losing your place or sense of continuity. It took me six months to read...
I got this as a pre-release galley proof. It looked better than the usual advance stuff and I thought it might be interesting. I was underwhelmed.
I couldn't stop myself from buying this book at the Texas Book Fair. I so liked the concept. The actual chapters, however, tended to be humdrum, broad and run-of-the-mill. The few exceptions were bright chapters by unknowns. Not as interesting as I had hoped.
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