When preparing to review my first book, I didn't really have any specific plans how I would do it. Though possessing only 215 pages more than half of which were photographs, the book presented a major challenge to me as a learner. In the end I decided to approach my review by structuring it around several questions that presented themselves as I was reading.

The first question was of course, why this book? I first chose Bart McDowell's "Gypsies. Wanderers of the…

Hi everyone,

I am not so great with introductions but lets give this a shot. I am Eugenia, residing in often sunny but cold Northern California. I am a voracious book reader and have recently started a Jewish themed book review blog (http://jewishbooksareawesome.wordpress.com).…