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#Bookspin December

1. Beyond Survival
2. Cobalt Red
3. The Underground Girls of Kabul
4. Flesh and Blood so Cheap
5. Waiting to be Arrested
6. Cesar Chavez
7. Trailblazer
8. The Deviants' War
9. Some People Need Killing
10. Four Shots
11. Small Acts of Courage
12. Necessary Trouble
13. Buses are a'Coming
14. Generation Revolution
15. Dorothy Day
16. Call Him Jack
17. Give Us The Ballot
18. Kids These Days
19. Salt Thief
20. American Midnight

I don‘t really know how to talk about this book. It‘s part memoir and part journalism. El Akkad takes the Western world to task for ignoring what is going on in Gaza, using lovely prose and horrific examples. It‘s a short book, but it took me a pretty long time to read because the topic is so difficult. It deserves its National Book Award win.

Today‘s “relaxing” reading.

So quick to read and so difficult to stomach. Another timely look at war on Gaza, this time a graphic novel.

"Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself, all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable."

4⭐️/5⭐️

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#10BeforeTheEnd - 3 Weeks In

I am 3 in, working slowly on Far From The Tree
Silly me I picked a lot of chunky books for this!

A once in a generation mind. Coates is always a pick. In this Coates strings together ideas from his travels - the slave trade out of Senegal, current day book banning in S. Carolina, Palestine occupation, and he some how threads them into a coherent telling on oppression
His cadence always blows me away, and how he can take subjects and make them not only lyrical but impactful.
Such important insights here. Should be required reading

Coffee break

#10BeforeTheEnd