I #read #mystery, #LiteraryFiction, #Bibliography (of both animals and people!), #History, #Psychology, #Pedagogy, #SciFi, #thriller, anything about #dogs, #feminist #fiction and #nonfiction, and am currently trying to expand my too-white horizons with #BlackWomen authors and #Indigenous, #NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian authors. You may know me as @PshrinkEmeritus or @Virginia_Wood_ over on the bird site or as @LowlyAdjunct@mastodon.social. I have been a fiend for reading since I was a little kid and am never, ever without a book ready to hand. . . or multiple, teetering TBR files lol
I read to learn and to escape--mostly the former by day, the latter in bed. It's not a good day if I haven't had time to read!
On a more serious level, am working my way through the #Tipitaka (the #PaliCanon) verse by verse, and have a mess of books on #Buddhism in my TBR pile.
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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and …
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies …
This got a great review in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on 11/6/22
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This …
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition …
Read some time in the late '60s - early '70s (high school AP Am Lit or college AA Lit)
When war breaks out again in May of 1803, Lewrie has fresh orders, a new frigate, and a chance to …
When war breaks out again in May of 1803, Lewrie has fresh orders, a new frigate, and a chance to …
This is hard going. I started it in the summer of 2021 when all the fuss started about people teaching CRT in the public schools and it threatened to spread to colleges and universities. I wondered what it was exactly, and whether I might have been teaching it all along without calling it that. Because I do emphasize a systems approach, critical reading, etc. & so forth. I can't make heads or tails of it so I guess not lol! If I ever finish it, I'll come back and write a proper review.
@joel I've never been attracted to this novel but reading your review makes me want to give it a try!
@joel the first book (this one) was excellent. Can't top the movie, though. And the 2nd book was. . . execrable. I couldn't finish it. Will never read another.
A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) is a comic novel by the Pakistani writer Mohammed …
I picked it up because at the time I had a Pakistani brother-in-law. It's good, though, whether you have a personal connection or not. Somehow Hanif manages to be both hysterically funny and horrifying at the same time.
