RebeccaSolnit

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility | Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young-Lutunatabua

#CoverLove Day 10: #Green. I inherited a fair number of climate-change-themed, ecojustice books from a friend who has left our university to teach at Indiana in the fall. Will miss him but grateful to have his books for safekeeping.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Beautiful green 🟢 🌏 💚 5mo

charl08 How nice he left his books! 5mo

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kspenmoll

Orwell's Roses | Rebecca Solnit

#RebeccaSolnit #OrwellsRoses #shelter #trees #saeculum #spanoftime #guardians #historyswitnesses

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kspenmoll

Weekly Forecast | Thomas Gibson Inc

#EllyGriffiths #Artmystery #botmbacklog #RebeccaSolnit #nonfiction #Irishhistory #sundaybuddyread #weeklyforecast

Just noticing that my mood/ADD brain has me fluctuating & bouncing around books much more lately. Some of these barely started.🤭

Cinfhen

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arubabookwoman

How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

Not a quote from this book but a quote from a recent article by #RebeccaSolnit which partly explains why I read books like this:

“..everything seems crazy. The news is overwhelming, and some try to cope by withdrawing or pretending that things are normal. Others are overwhelmed and distraught. I‘m afflicted by a kind of hyper-vigilance of the news, a daily obsession to watch what‘s going on...(con‘t below)

arubabookwoman “...that is partly a quest for sense in what seems so senseless. At least I‘ve been able to find the patterns and understand who the key players are, but to see the logic behind the chaos brings us face to face with how deep the trouble is.” 7y

BarbaraBB What a sad truth 😪 7y

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arubabookwoman

How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

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Using examples from history, and focusing on events in the US from the 1980s until today the authors demonstrate that, yes indeed, we are in danger of losing our democracy. Although the authors are well-regarded historians, they write in easy to understand language with vivid details. This is the most recent book on related topics that I‘ve read since the 2016 election, and it is one of the most important and most chilling. I am not hopeful.

SqueakyChu Wow! Wasn‘t that book too depressing to read? 7y

arubabookwoman @SqueakyChu The whole situation the country (world) is in is depressing. My reaction is to keep educating myself. See the quote from #RebeccaSolnit above. This book was not sensationalist or gossipy, but very grounded in history and logic. 7y

SqueakyChu I know. I don‘t want to listen to the news, but I want to keep abreast of the truth. At this stage of my life, I‘m unable to live elsewhere. What a terrible situation to leave for my children and grandchildren. The irony of my situation is that my parents came to the US for their own self-preservation and freedom. Each day seems worse here than the previous day. Good for you to be able to read the entire book! 7y

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kspenmoll

Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions | Rebecca Solnit

#WeAreNotHysterical #StrandBookstore #RebeccaSolnit
Just saw this today.
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Lacythebookworm That's a fantastic list of books! Thanks for sharing 🙌 8y

Kmmsellers Wonderful list! 8y

kspenmoll @Lacythebookworm @Kmmsellers Glad to share, it is a great list! 8y

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