Today I started my first book of the year (after finishing up some December reads). I‘m excited to see what the year ahead brings, sorting out my TBR into one place has reminded me how many books I can‘t wait to read! The tagged book is set 15 minutes down the road from my house. I do love a book set somewhere I know 🏠
pickIt‘s taken me months to finish this short book. hooks‘ writing can be dense & takes some thought. These are essays about race, finding her home & place in the world, & memories of her family. I really liked the ones about quilt making & what that meant to the elders. She also writes about my favorite author, Wendell Berry, & includes a convo they had about how racism and the environment connect & his book, The Hidden Wound. Made me wish I could 👇
Something something the Greeks were always doing shitty gender things.
pickWhile academic in some places, this little book was fun and fascinating if like me, you find different cultural conceptions of the world worth attempting to understand. While perhaps not fully understood, the author journeys through the landscape and tales of the Western Apache in Arizona to map local places, their historical Apache names and the historical as well as their social significance -a geography of stories and inherited wisdom.
pickAfter 15 years of living in Sacramento I've been noticing lately that I have a love/hate relationship with my city. I've lived here longer than any where else. I have a lot of memories here, but I don't see myself putting down roots, or growing old here. Reading this book was eye opening and inspiring. A mix of personal anecdotes and research, the author gives lots of examples of how one can actively learn to love where they live.
Sometimes literally the only place you can find a book is a shitty libgen pdf and that's okay
https://youtu.be/y02mEcEzavY?si=VZ4XlpHdfCAo14Jh
The Importance of Book-Centered Spaces as Third Places by Susie Dumond; https://bookriot.com/book-centered-spaces-as-third-places/
so-soThe Slip tells a story about a street in NYC that was home to starving artists in the 50s and 60s, giving them studio space and artistic community. Great idea, but it started to get rather dull for me (not sure if this was me or the book). I appreciated the inclusion of women in the discussion, since it‘s so often just men.
NBA longlist, nonfiction
