What are you reading?

[Orema]

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Kindle Edition), by Heather McGhee

[hagster]

Originally Posted by Orema

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Kindle Edition), by Heather McGhee

This is a terrific read and I've been imploring people in my life to read it. Glad you picked it up, Orema!

[Orema]

Originally Posted by hagster

This is a terrific read and I've been imploring people in my life to read it. Glad you picked it up, Orema!

Thanks, Hagster. Good to hear such a strong endorsement.

I also bought You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experirince. An Anthology edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown to be released tomorrow.

[FireSignFemme]

An Alarming History of Famous (and difficult) Patients. Amusing Medical Anecdotes from Typhoid Mary to FDR by Richard Gordon

[randrum]

Northern Heist by Richard O'Rawe

[cinnamongrrl]

My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lots of annotations. There’s even one to quote her own self!

[Bèsame*]

Again, I'm on a waiting list. So I'm reading nothing at the moment..grrr

I must want to read what everyone else is reading@ lol. ..popular stuff!

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Bèsame*

If I'm not mistaken this is being made into either a movie or a mini-series!

[Orema]

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

It’s a collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church.

Am liking it very much though it’s a strong reminder of what I dread (and miss) about organized religion.

It’s encouraging me to visit my local AME church in hopes of hearing a good Sunday morning sermon.

[Kätzchen]

Rico gave me books by Jojo Moyes for my birthday last week. I have enough of her books for summertime reading.

I just started The Giver of Stars. It takes place during the Depression era. From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond.




I plan to open up other books soon, by Moyes: Me Before You (The trilogy: Before You, After You, Still Me).

You can read about this series of stories, published by Penguin Random House here.

[randrum]

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Insider Art: A Compendium of Comics, Crafts and Cats, Shelly Bond

150 female and non-binary worldwide artists created this book during the pandemic. There are short comics, essays, craft projects, and illustrations (mostly of cats!). It's a fun read for someone with a short attention span. It's also the perfect book to "read" (while intermittently dozing) during a 6-hour chemo treatment. You can easily drift through this book, selecting items here and there to peruse - no need to read them in order. I imagine it would make a great gift for someone who is a bathroom reader.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Bèsame*

Wonderfully written. This author's first novel, captivating writing style, held my attention. It was a "I can't put it down". Highly recommend, even if you have to be 99 on a waiting list!

If I recall, several posted about how good this book was! Just like The Help, I waited and waited on picking it up! It was good and I wished I'd of jumped on the band wagon sooner!

I just finished The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz also the author of You Should Have Known which was the bases for HBO's mini series The Undoing.

I enjoyed The Plot but I had it figured out way early.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by randrum

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I just looked this title up and it looks interesting randrum.

Do you recommend it?

[firecat242]

On Fascism by Mathew MacWilliams. Informative, educational, and necessary. We need to know this information in order to, not just survive, but to heal as well.
And for light reading Little Boy Blue by M. J. Alridge. Detective crime novel with some very interesting female characters.

[Orema]

Any obits and articles I can find on bell hooks.

All the Best Jazz Albums lists I can find.

The Jemima Code audio book. It's an excellent source on the history of food by Black Americans and our impact on American food.

Listening to an LGBTQ+ anthology by 20th century BIPOC writers.

A couple articles on American system of tipping and how it's rooted in the treatment of enslaved people.

[Stone-Butch]

"Buffy Ste Marie"

Biography Life of a Canadian Native singer who survived all the things of childhood that would make most of us shrink. Then, rose to stardom.


"Face in the Water"

A true documentary concerning the state of things in Mental Institutions from back not so far to present. This is presented by a woman who got depressed and was institutionalized and she speaks of the treatment with shock therapy and medications that can turn unhappy people into zombies while the medical community calls it cure. Very deep book.

[Stone-Butch]

Started two others but today I made a point of finishing my last book "Women's Madness" (mysogyny or mental illness ) concerning women from the time of witches to present day around the world of women being held to blame for all the worlds ills including their own. More than we could ever know about the mistreatment of women throughout history. (I do not like that word as it stands true for all we learn his story).

[firecat242]

Water's Edge by Gregg Olsen. Fast easy read. Book 2 in a trilogy.
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum. Just started this one. I am hopeful that at the end I will understand why people are moving towards a more authoritarianism mind set. It truly baffles me.

[Kätzchen]

1) The Big Cheat: How D----d T---p Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family (Author: David C. Johnston, November 2021).

2) Unthinkable (Author: Senator Jamie Raskin, January 2022).


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I am nowhere near finished reading from either book, but both books provide inescapable truths/facts about the former con-man-grifter-in-chief and what is at stake for American Democracy.