I'm reading about Darfur

I'm reading about Darfur for a class I'm taking. The following is an account of how I came to be reading about Darfur.

Selected Reading
Title: Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
Author: Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro
Publisher: Nation Books, an Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2006

High-Quality 21st Century Writing ... that I enjoy
For starters, I certainly should hope that the book meets the criteria. In fact, I’m sure it does. It must! It was recommended reading on the list. This isn’t a cop-out answer, and I’ll tell you why: Going with a book that was recommended by the instructors not only cuts down on time spent pondering which book to read, but it also exponentially increases the chance of choosing reading that is high quality.

Getting a recommendation for a book from an instructor/librarian is like getting a recommendation for what to eat from the chef of a restaurant - they know which items are the best to read or eat, respectively.

As far as whether or not I’ll enjoy what I’ve been recommended, I believe that I will.

I don’t know much about Darfur. I suppose I know a little, but I generalize it in a way that is in terms of the whole globe: Another bunch of people are super-crazy poor; and they are blaming a specific group of people for their woes; and they’re so frustrated and angry about their life situation that they start trying to kill off the whole group of people that they’re blaming.
Nothing new to me ... Or at least that’s my limited perception going into this. I hope to learn something.

But I believe I’ll enjoy it because it will be good reading - not just because it’s something I don’t know a lot about.

Book-Location Procedures
To find this book, I went online to the Metro State website as demonstrated in class. I practiced and repeated the same steps we used in class to locate the book within the Metro State Library. The library’s database turned up the location of the book when I searched for “Darfur Diaries.”
I considered the recommendation from my instructors to be sufficient consumer testimony.

Book-Acquisition Procedures
To acquire the book, I intently marched to the second floor of the Metro State Library, glancing only momentarily at the oncoming student traffic in the skyway (there was little), and went to the section bearing the book coded “DT159.6.D27 M3 2006.” I fell upon the book, “Darfur Diaries,” and extracted it from the shelf after weeding through a few other books about Darfur - just as I’m sure good ol’ Melvil Dewy would have insisted I should do.

With the book in my clasp, I darted back to the front desk of the second floor. I checked out the book with the assistance of a helpful-but-unamused woman of - no doubt - Hmong descent, who informed me that the book needed to be back by the 8th of February, and even slipped a reminder slip into the book in case the date slipped my mind. From there, it was only a matter of moments before I completely absconded with the book safely zipped away in my Swiss Army backpack. But I assure you, though I may have executed the acquisition of the book with unwarranted bravado and a bit of unnecessary excitement, there’s nothing facetious about my method. I’ll have it back by the 8th.