pickBiography - Published in 2019. Ruth Asawa was an award-winning Japanese American sculptor and activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. This book tells the story of this pioneering artist whose work is collected in major museums around the world.
Inspired by the world around her, Asawa saw beauty in the ordinary: the webs of spiders, wings of insects, and drops of water found in the garden on the farm where she spent her childhood.
so-soFirst-generation American Edward Wong is a journalist and son of Chinese immigrants. Here, he details his father‘s early life in China alongside his own time living in China as an NYT correspondent. The current day stuff is quite interesting, but his father‘s story is less so, as it‘s a bit bloated. Overall, this book would have been helped by editing.
#Audiocrafting! I‘m a huge minions fan and put together this kit while listening. The instructions are only in Japanese (I believe), which I do not read or speak, which made it a little more challenging, but I was up to the task! Even Bindi wants a look! 😂
pickI adore Rita Moreno and this book! She‘s one tough cookie, putting up with stereotypic roles & industry BS. Now at 92, EGOT Rita is still working, calling her own shots and regarded as one of the kindest Hollywood icons. She‘s renowned for her role as Anita, but I also loved her inside stories about The Ritz, The King & I, The Electric Co, seeing MLK deliver his “Dream” speech, & her complicated affair with Brando.❤️🩹
#BookSpin
@TheAromaofBooks
Boston Library 📚 Classics 🧡💚
pickI debated about using this book for this prompt in #Nonfiction2024, but I‘m finding this challenge more difficult this year. 😬 This biography of showman P.T. Barnum, known (some may say infamous?) for his exhibits that included dwarves (i.e. General Tom Thumb, Lavinia Warren, Commodore Nutt), was interesting to me as a Connecticut native. It delves into the history of Bridgeport and the various civic activities to which Barnum contributed.
