Mid-Year: Themed Reading #LoveYourLibrary

2024-07-25T10:25:14-04:00

Now that it’s July, I’m re-examining the goals I had in mind earlier this year, checking to see whether my plans have aligned with my reading choices so far. A few days ago, I wrote about one of my slow-reading projects this year, and in a few days

Mid-Year: Themed Reading #LoveYourLibrary2024-07-25T10:25:14-04:00

Mid-Year 2024, In My Reading Log (Women’s Stories)

2024-07-25T10:19:11-04:00

Past the mid-point of the reading year, I notice that there are some books I finished reading some time ago, lingering. Just, around. Left in innocuous places as though I just finished reading them there. Finally, when I found a place for Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel (on the shelf

Mid-Year 2024, In My Reading Log (Women’s Stories)2024-07-25T10:19:11-04:00

Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

2024-07-18T21:33:47-04:00

Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning (2016) is a doorstopper of a book that grew out of his desire to write an introductory chapter to a book about Black Studies programs in American (i.e. in the United States) universities and colleges. When his chapter was 90 pages long,

Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America2024-07-18T21:33:47-04:00

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (5 of 5)

2024-06-20T16:02:01-04:00

Today’s discussion includes four more books by Indigenous authors adding to the previous days’ bookchat (one, two, three, four), sparked by Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st. In Joseph Kakwinokanasum’s My Indian Summer (2022) the chapters are named for songs from Hunter’s youth: from “Love Will Keep us Together”

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (5 of 5)2024-06-20T16:02:01-04:00

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)

2024-06-25T10:58:15-04:00

The past few days, I’ve shared talk of ten different books by and about Indigenous stories (here, here, and here), and today I’ll write about three more: some poems, a novel, and an illustrated song. D.A. Lockhart’s 2022 collection, Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press, in Neyaashiinigmiing / Owen

June 2024: #ReadIndigenous (4 of 5)2024-06-25T10:58:15-04:00
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