Eric Beckman started reading Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang
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Eric Beckman rated I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness: 5 stars
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Mara Faye Lethem, Irene Solà
Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, …
Eric Beckman finished reading I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Mara Faye Lethem
Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf …
Wild ride through time, natural and supernatural. Ghosts.
Eric Beckman started reading Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
Picking this back up. Just read "Port au Prince Marriage Special"
Eric Beckman rated When I Sing, Mountains Dance: 5 stars
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Mara Faye Lethem, Irene Sola
When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia …
Eric Beckman finished reading When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Mara Faye Lethem
When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves …
Lyrical, brilliant, captivating
Eric Beckman finished reading 1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline (Turning Points in Ancient History ; 6)
From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse …
Very archeological
Eric Beckman started reading 1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline (Turning Points in Ancient History ; 6)
From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse …
Took advantage of a Princeton University Press sale in May and dug right in. Fascinating
Eric Beckman started reading Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera
Mixing in a little fiction
Eric Beckman started reading Denmark Vesey's Bible by Jeremy Schipper
Reading Seller's Market Revolution piqued my interest in the Denmark Vesey conspiracy, and Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale that includes this title!
Eric Beckman started reading Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
Relvant to the current moment
Eric Beckman finished reading The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing
interesting, rewarding read. Ewing argues that we need to look beyond the spectacular rise and stumble of Garvey and the Black Star Line to the deep influence of his ideas in the US and in Africa. Garvey and his movement embraced a less confrontational but very determined response to White supremacy that nurtured resistance to colonialism in Africa and White surpremacy in the US.
Eric Beckman started reading The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing
I've started a bunch of books this year. Given the state of the world reading about resistance to racism, as world history, seems like the right move. Will finish this.
Eric Beckman rated The Ottomans: 5 stars
The Ottomans by Marc David Baer, Marc David Baer
A history of the Ottoman Empire from before Osman I in the 1280s until after Abdülmecid II in 1924.
Eric Beckman finished reading The Ottomans by Marc David Baer
A history of the Ottoman Empire from before Osman I in the 1280s until after …
Excellent, approachable. Baer firmly places the Ottomans in World, Mediterranean, and European history