Up next for book club, and my current read. #FirstSaturdayReaders
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Up next for book club, and my current read. #FirstSaturdayReaders
pickBlacklisted actor Paul Robeson summed it up best in a letter he wrote to Charlie: "...fascists everywhere hated you for your anti-Nazi film, The Great Dictator. Well, Hitler and his gang are gone, but Chaplin and his art lives on! And your name will be honored --yes, here in America, too --long after McCarthy and his kind are buried in oblivion.".
Indeed.
It was intrinsically absurd...until Donald Trump.
Now reading : the Indictment
pickThis was very good. Polio, McCarthyism, space aliens, the Korean War - the 1950s was a pretty scary place.
Walsh mentions Hergé as an influence, and I can really see the Tin Tin vibe in some of the panels.
so-soMcCarthy-era teen Richard befriends new neighbor Vlad, the half-Czech son of a US diplomat. Richard‘s dad is an FBI agent and suspicious of the new family. This book on one hand does a good job of showing the absurdities of that era, including the comparison to our own moment, but on the other hand is a bit heavy handed.
#bookspinbingo audio edition bingo #3!
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