#EllyGriffiths #Artmystery #botmbacklog #RebeccaSolnit #nonfiction #Irishhistory #sundaybuddyread #weeklyforecast
Just noticing that my mood/ADD brain has me fluctuating & bouncing around books much more lately. Some of these barely started.🤭
#EllyGriffiths #Artmystery #botmbacklog #RebeccaSolnit #nonfiction #Irishhistory #sundaybuddyread #weeklyforecast
Just noticing that my mood/ADD brain has me fluctuating & bouncing around books much more lately. Some of these barely started.🤭
Not a quote from this book but a quote from a recent article by #RebeccaSolnit which partly explains why I read books like this:
“..everything seems crazy. The news is overwhelming, and some try to cope by withdrawing or pretending that things are normal. Others are overwhelmed and distraught. I‘m afflicted by a kind of hyper-vigilance of the news, a daily obsession to watch what‘s going on...(con‘t below)
Using examples from history, and focusing on events in the US from the 1980s until today the authors demonstrate that, yes indeed, we are in danger of losing our democracy. Although the authors are well-regarded historians, they write in easy to understand language with vivid details. This is the most recent book on related topics that I‘ve read since the 2016 election, and it is one of the most important and most chilling. I am not hopeful.
#WeAreNotHysterical #StrandBookstore #RebeccaSolnit
Just saw this today.
@strandbookstore/we-are-not-hysterical-1f4b21e33d0c?subid=21771239&CMP" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://medium.com/@strandbookstore/we-are-not-hysterical-1f4b21e33d0c?subid=217...
#RebeccaSolnit
Lovely tribute to this author/activist
http://hafny.org/blog/2017/4/reading-rebecca-solnit