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monalyisha
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Fiction: Juno Loves Legs (book club)
Nonfiction: Cunning Folk (just started)
Audio: Of Time and Turtles (nearly done)

I just cracked open the middle book this morning & I‘m already slightly obsessed (despite the fact that it has endnotes, which make me want to rip my hair out; fortunately, it seems like they‘re mostly just crediting source material & I can ignore them without missing anything). Also, how gorgeous is that cover?! 🤩

#weekendreads

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xicanti
The Knowing | Tanya Talaga
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THE KNOWING is intense; both an in-depth history of the harm perpetuated against Indigenous people on Turtle Island and a personal look at the impact on Tanya Talaga‘s own family.

It‘s also one of many, many, MANY books I‘ve read about the evil done by various Christian churches over the last 500 years, and I realize I‘ve never read anything in which a Christian writer reckons with this horrific legacy. Can any of you recommend one to me?

BarbaraJean In the last couple years I‘ve read The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone and The Four Vision Quests of Jesus—both by BIPOC Christian writers. I‘d highly recommend both. These may not be exactly what you‘re looking for, not directly written in order to reckon with the church‘s legacy of harm (at least not broadly), but both very relevant to that topic. 22m
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shanaqui

I'm having to do a first post on some of the books I've started reading concurrently in order for them to show up properly as I can mark them as current reads! The list is just growing and growing and growing... I'm very whim-driven at the moment, just reading a little of multiple books at the same time, and that's fine.

I'm finding this one more interesting than I thought, even while it's still just describing how the census was set up!

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shanaqui

This is interesting so far, but mostly... we don't really know how to explain a lot of the graffiti, so there are few conclusions we can come to. Every chapter ends with a kind of “but really, we don't know“, which is fair, I just wish we did know!

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Eggs
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"We are Romanovs. The bond of our hearts spans miles, memory, and time."

#LostRoyalty

#Bibliophile

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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RamsFan1963
Odyssey | Stephen Fry
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Pickpick

51/100 I know it's an old saying, but honestly, I could listen to Stephen Fry read a phone book, if they still existed. His narration really brings the story of Odessus to life, it's often quite funny when it's not being tragic, as Odessus has one misadventure after another, both helped and hindered by the various gods of Olympus. I know this is the last book of his Greek Mythology series, but I love to see him tackle Norse mythology. 5 🌟 read

dabbe I just started reading MYTHOS. I'm thinking I need to listen to it, instead. I love Stephen Fry! 💚💜💚 14h
RamsFan1963 He has an amazing voice, and I love his characterization of Zeus, the most harassed father in history, always having his children pestering him for favors or to clean up messes they've mad in the mortal world. 14h
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CBee I agree!! I LOVED Mythos and gave Troy and Heroes lined up. Might do Odyssey first though! 13h
CBee @dabbe you MUST listen!! 13h
dabbe @CBee 🎯🩵🎯 12h
AlaMich The right narrator makes a good book into an amazing book. (edited) 5h
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The.Great.Catsby
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1. Finished the tagged book and liked it way more than I thought I would. Thank you book club!
2. Students are gone, so campus is a lot quieter and bathrooms are a lot cleaner.
3. I made 2 crock pot meals that my husband really liked (I liked them too)!
4. I made a new friend!
5. I helped a new transfer student feel less stressed. Whenever I do this, it feels like an advising win. 💜💛

#5JoysFriday
@DebinHawaii

dabbe 💚💜💚 14h
TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 12h
JenlovesJT47 💚💚💚 12h
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JenniferEgnor
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Pickpick

I think we all think about the end of the world or ourselves, if only briefly, at least once a day. We imagine how it will happen—quick, painful? With warning, time to prepare and make final rounds? We consume film, literature, and headlines that talk about it—because we love it. We think we will get the time off from work, lose our worries, lose our financial debts, our jury duties. If we lose these things, will we also lose our sense of⬇️

JenniferEgnor self? If we survive, will we retain our humanity? Humans have been obsessed with this ‘great escape‘ for as long as we have existed. Our oldest myths tell us that. We fantasize about the end—but when it comes, will we actually be ready for it? Will we accept it? What if it isn‘t the kind of end that we want? What makes one more terrible than another? With all we have done and continue to do to each other, do we deserve to go on existing? 16h
JenniferEgnor Each chapter discusses a different way we think our doom will arrive, using art, literature, film, history, modern events. The world seems an uneasy place these days, with sociopaths in the halls of power. The real question is, what will we choose to do with what we have? 16h
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JenniferEgnor
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Pickpick

The second half of the title for this book is misleading. Yes, a white woman brought down DC Stephenson—a man with strong roots in the KKK…but not in the way you think. If I say more, I‘ll give it away. Remember: privilege.

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Rome753
The Book on the Bookshelf | Henry Petroski
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Theodora resting by the library
#TuxedoCats #catsandbooks #readingcats

AmyG A beauty! 18h
Rome753 @AmyG She's very photogenic! 18h
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 16h
dabbe #theatricalthodora!!! 🤩🐾🤩 14h
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