by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 15, 2018 | RESIST: Politics
Dan Rather’s What Unites Us is a book of consummate steadiness in a world rolling among considerable waves. As a child of the 1960s, it was Rather whose voice I heard during my childhood and early adulthood. We always turned on the television news after dinner, and...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 6, 2018 | RESIST: Social Justice
Michael Eric Dyson tells it like it is in Tears We Cannot Stop. Subtitled A Sermon for White America, it is just that. In both structure and tone, Dyson combines his experience as both pastor and professor. It is a moving and emotional book. But it’s also exquisitely...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 2, 2017 | LEARN: Everything Else
No one writes quite like Ray Bradbury. Perhaps that’s an understatement, but as I was reading Zen in the Art of Writing, I was again reminded of his brilliance. He has impeccable control of the English language. But at the same time, his sentences are playful...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 20, 2017 | RELAX: Memoir
I picked up I feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephrata on a Sunday afternoon when I needed a little levity. Having loved her movies but never read her books, this was a happy find at a library book sale. And it did make me laugh some, and groan quite a lot. Sometimes a...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 19, 2017 | RESIST: Politics, RESIST: Social Justice
To say Ta-Nehisi Coates covers a lot of ground in We Were Eight Years in Power is a true understatement. This book has done more to explain to me the state of the U.S. today than several of the other books I’ve read since the election combined. Coates reaches...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 26, 2017 | LEARN: Medical Memoir
Roxane Gay’s memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is exquisitely emotionally raw. If my closest friend poured her deepest, darkest secrets out to me, it couldn’t begin to be this vulnerable. It hurt my heart to read chapter after chapter of Gay’s...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 28, 2017 | RELAX: Other Relaxation
Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist is like cotton candy from a county fair. Some bites are good, other are just too much, and once it’s melted away you don’t buy anymore for another year or two. After listening to the audiobook during the 24in48 readathon, as...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 3, 2017 | RESIST: Politics
On Tyranny shook me. It’s supposed to do that. Timothy Snyder offers 20 concrete actions to take that can resist tyrannical behavior. Some of the actions he recommends are internal – such as believe in truth. However, he also takes that thought process and...
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