I am taking a children's literature course this summer to be honest. Last week I read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor, and Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Both were great powerful books.

I liked Roll of Thunder best, because it was a very personal depiction of the consequences of redeemer politicians in the south. Many southern states pushed blacks away from the polls with Jim Crow laws and elected corrupt politicians. Their goal was to run the state at a profit by providing no public services, like schools or hospitals, and selling the labor of chain gangs to private industry.

One particularly powerful part showed the school bus carrying white children, not just passing the black children, but making a game of trying to push them off the road. I cannot imagine the damage, that did to all the children involved.

In my spare time I am trying to read The Game Believes in You, How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter by Greg Toppo. I was reading Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin, but it is just so much more violent then the show. It takes to long to get back to a happy place.