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Alexander Davidson is an author, secondary educator, and certified reading specialist with a BA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) and an MAT in Literacy Education from Madonna University (Livonia, MI). He has been a member of the National Council of Teachers of English since 2011 and has presented at multiple conferences at the local, state, national, and international level. While teaching reading and writing to middle school and high school students, Alexander Davidson strives to create written works that will interest his students and teach them valuable lessons at the same time. The Visitor's Choice: A Search to Make Things Right (Ferne Press) is his first novel. ...more

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I set a goal to read 70 books this year. Spoiler alert: I crushed it! 💥

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In 2024, I set out to read 70 books—and I crushed it with 80 titles! 🎉 This number has been my sweet spot for a few years now, and I love the consistency. While I’m team hardcover all the way, audiobooks have completely stolen the show. Read more of this blog post »

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)

by Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author)

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Alexander Davidson said: " Love this book. I should probably try to re-write a real review now that Goodreads can keep track of multiple reads.

Re-read to teach to my Contemporary Literature students (2015) and everything got deleted.

Originally read: October 31, 2013 to Novembe ...more "

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Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)

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read in August 2020

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Alexander Davidson said: " We added this amazing novel to our American Literature curriculum this year, so I reread the novel along with my students for lesson planning purposes. It’s just as good the second time!

“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to wri We added this amazing novel to our American Literature curriculum this year, so I reread the novel along with my students for lesson planning purposes. It’s just as good the second time!

“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

Eight generations and centuries of American and Ghanian history all in only 300 pages. You might think it cannot be done, but it can, and Gyasi totally rocked it. Each chapter has its own time period and character focus, and in only that short amount of time, Gyasi captures the setting as well as the readers’ hearts with each new family member. To get readers to connect so strongly in such a short amount of time is surely a fantastic feat. I can’t believe this is her first novel. It’s such a masterpiece!

Rating: LOVED IT ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ...more "

Sep 26, 2024 04:44AM · see review

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Run for the Hills

by Kevin Wilson (Goodreads Author)

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“Just because something is tough or difficult, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible. The challenge is what makes something wonderful when you finally overcome your obstacles. The sense of success that comes when working hard over time is much better than achieving a simple task. Don’t be afraid of a challenge when it can make you a better person in the end.”
― Alexander Davidson, The Visitor's Choice: A Search to Make Things Right

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“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
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