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#12BooksOf2022

Feb was heavy on ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads including Children of the Fox, The Undocumented Americans, A Brief History of Earth, What Strange Paradise & the tagged book, Allow Me Retort. Leave it to Mystal to write a wildly entertaining, informative, &, above all, accessible book about the US Constitution, warts & all. This book had me all fired up when I read it & it‘s one of my most frequently recommended books of the year.

@Andrew65

Let me tell you, this books makes you laugh and angry at the same time. I learned so many new things and court cases. It was well written and full of wanting to educate. #nonfiction #politics

“We live in the most violent industrialized nation on earth because too many dudes can't admit they still need a night light.“

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I love this book. It‘s smart, informative, funny & reminds me of my dad. The whole time I read it, I wished my dad were alive to read it. He would have devoured it. My son is next on the list, so 💕

I never thought I'd willingly pick up a book about the US Constitution, but I did and liked it. I follow Elie Mystal on Twitter and he's great both places at making some things about like constitutional law interesting and understandable with an appropriate seasoning of swears.

It was down-to-earth, educational, enlightening and in light of events over the past few years, interesting to see how the constitution has been interpreted in comparison to what it actually says. Like how he shows the text, and the original reading and changes in legal rulings over time to what we have now. Definitely worth the read.

May #readingroundup

Not included the 3 books I bailed on this month

Making progress on the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction Long List with Sorrow &Bliss; Popisho; The Paper Palace; The Sentence
Fell pretty heavy into graphic novels this month
My favorite reads - Allow Me To Retort; Heartstopper 2&3; Home Fire

Off to a late start but SO is out of town, it is raining and a long weekend so excited to dig into some books
Goals-
Finish:
Allow Me To Retort
The Sentence
Even Though I Knew The End

Stretch goal -
Read Sea of Tranquility

#20in4 #readathon @Andrew65

New nails and reading a book that is really only for the American left 😂
I am loving it and learning a lot about constitutional law.

This is not a book for centerists or right leaners. But I am digging the down to earth language.

"Canceling trash people is not a constitutional crisis".

I am supposed to be finishing a different library book but with a fist chapter title like this how can you not drop everything else?

Cup made for me by my cousin ?

It‘s been forever since I‘ve posted…reading this for my office book club and definitely recommend as an easy read to understand the constitution and how it‘s principles and interpretation have impacted Black people. Written with humour and in a way you don‘t need to be a lawyer to get (even tho I am a lawyer).

Late here with the March report. I missed both bookspin and doublespin reads but read four! books not originally on my list. All of March reading was good with the tagged book my favorite of the month.

No bingos though - on any of my boards!

#nonfiction2022
#bookspinbingo
#LGBTQBookBingo #LGBTQ2022
#2022ReadingBracket

Must #audiobook this for the full impact. More excellent, interesting and dare I say, exciting than expected and being a long time follower of Mystal as a blogger, my expectations were high. It was through Mystal that I probably had my first “a-ha” moment as a white person on how different the black experience is from the white experience in this country. And the deep reasons why.

At the very least, read the epilogue.

Good humor. Language.

1. Greenland by David Santos Donaldson

2. William Gibson

3. Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal. I‘ve followed this writer for years online in blogs and magazine articles. Brings such great humor to sensitive racial topics (and to everyday observations). His voice really opened my eyes to how systematic racism works. Offers workable solutions. Not easy ones, but workable.

#SundayFunday

25 books and countless comics (I❤️YOU SAGA!!!) later, February is in the books (ha!). These were my top 5 (if I really, really, really had to pick) but I also really loved Jenny Lawson‘s Broken (in the best possible way). Also, a special shout out to the forthcoming Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon which had an epic description of my out-of-the-way neighborhood so accurate the author had to have visited. That was a fun surprise. Lots of great reading!

Did a book on politics & the constitution just jump to the top of my best books of the year? Yeah, it‘s right up there. And yeah, unputdownable is no exaggeration. Mystal writes with such knowledge, clarity, & humor I was reading passages aloud to my husband all day long. The book offers his argument for “what the constitution is, versus what it should be and must be for us to live in a just society.” We have some work to do. Highly recommended.

#WeekendReading

I‘m in the middle of three very different books, enjoying each very much, and hope to make progress on all three this weekend.

📖 The Captive is billed as rural noir and is definitely atmospheric

📖 Booth is about the family of John Wilkes Booth and it‘s Fowler, so yeah, it‘s really good

📖 Allow Me to Retort is fascinating & maddening & informative &, oddly enough for a book about the constitution, unputdownable

@Andrew65