With all of this free time, I’ve seriously reconsidered giving my attention to the news versus reading a good book! The constant regurgitation of broadcasters predicting “worse case scenario” events is wearing thin, to say the least. I’m curious… what are YOU reading right now, or have read in the past, that you’d recommend?
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Michelle Obama’s Becoming
Also:
From the library:
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (short stories)
Purchased:
Stop Telling Women to Smile
Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power
by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Read & Riot
A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
by Nadya Tolokonnikova
White Fragility
Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin DiAngelo
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele (with a forward by Angela Davis)
Miss Subways
By David Duchovny
(note: found it unreadable – donated it to the library – someone will like it)
“Emergency Alert: An Immersive Novel” by Author O.W. Showe 🤓 It’s an interactive short story!
the age of surveillance capitalism, shoshanna zuboff; the last negroes at harvard, kent garrett; when it was grand, leeanna keith; what doesn’t kill you makes you blacker, damon young. enjoy.
The Mouse And The Motorcycle.
Dusty aspirin rocks.
Two Years Before the Mast
Coyote America
Thinking, Fast & Slow
“Asimov’s Guide to the Bible”
Isaac Asimov’s look at the old and new testament creates a historic and cultural picture of the bible. For anyone who has been attacked by bible thumping thugs, or anyone who is interested in understanding the bible in a more complete context.
@9 Thanks for sharing (I guess?) ~ Solonas was a victim of sexual abuse and severely mentally ill. Her life was a tragedy.
@11 Ah okay. I may check it out (when I’m able to access a library again, safely). Thanks.
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe. Subtitle: A true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland, but this is not a lurid Helter Skelter-style treatment of the Troubles. Thoughtful, loaded with stories within stories, packed with clear-eyed details that illuminate the people of a radical struggle. Truthfully, I could not put it down and I am not the only one.
Today (May 19) is Malcolm X day. A good day to read anything by or about him. Here’s one link with a pretty good list. https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/malcolm-x/books
Starvation Heights=A true story of murder and malice in the woods of the Pacific North West by Gregg Olsen
The Wives of Henry VIII by Allison Weir
Blindness by Jose Saramago