What are you reading?

[Kätzchen]

I am not familiar with the author, but a close friend gave me this book. I'm going to read some of it tonight. Here is a GoodReads link to reviews by other readers.

[Kätzchen]

The January 6th Committee Summary Report (LINK)

I'm gonna splurge on a reading treat for me and buy the January 6th's book which the forward is written by MSNBC's Ari Melber. Should be a good read and last me for a while (at least until summer).

[cricket26]

Mad Honey: A Novel: Picoult, Jodi, Boylan, Jennifer Finney

[akiza]

My heart is hesitating between whimsical haven of Tiffany E Taylor and some humour of don camillo i loved the movies so the books must be great 🙂

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

I have just started it, and as with other Octavia Butler books, I find it a little hard to get into at the beginning. But I find her writing absorbing, a little while after I get going. Parable of the Sower is a post-apocalyptic novel, which is exactly what I'm in the mood for right now. It's very of-the-moment, as it's supposed to be taking place in 2024. It's about an empath who decides to follow a new religion that is very sci fi, rather than the traditional one her family follows.

The book has also been made into a graphic novel, but I decided to go for the written version with this book rather than the graphic one. I've gone with the graphic novel version for several of the books I've read lately, and I think it's time to get back to some words - and only words - and let my imagination do the visualizing.

[firecat242]

I would just like to take the opportunity to thank all who contributed to this thread. You've given me many hours of reading pleasure with your suggestions.
Thank You!!

[Kätzchen]

The Warmth of Other Suns

--Synopsis--

The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast, and West from approximately 1915 to 1970. Throughout the twentieth century, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering cities, America and the American people.

With historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.



~~>>> Personal note: I have read this book a few years ago and because of conversations I encounter on a daily basis, with clients, I find Wilkerson's book a historical significance in educating others whose own private knowledge is lacking in factual evidence.