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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia | Kate Manne

If you are looking to buy our next read instead of borrowing it from the library… it is on sale today on both Kindle & Kobo

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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure | Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff

“I don‘t want you to be safe ideologically. I don‘t want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That‘s different. I‘m not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I‘m not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that‘s the whole point of the gym. This is the gym.” - Van Jones

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ImperfectCJ

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents--And What They Mean for America's Future | Jean M Twenge

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Overall, I found this book to be moderate, data-driven, and interesting, with a couple of caveats. First, Twenge sometimes doesn't flag clearly what is data and what is her opinion. This is fine, it just means I have to pay closer attention. Next, I found the GenX section disappointing. She ignores outliers and nuances she points out in the Millennials section, and she reaches different conclusions from some data than I do. (cont'd ⬇️)

ImperfectCJ Admittedly, Twenge is an older GenXer and I'm a younger GenXer, and there's been a divide between those two microgenerations for a long time. Finally, some of the predictions for the future feel jarring given what's happened in the months between the book's publication and now, but I don't fault Twenge for that. We're in wacky territory is all, and data can only predict so much. (edited) 1mo

ImperfectCJ And a final note for anyone who reads as I do, bouncing between the audio and the print/ebook: The ebook has been updated since the audiobook was made, so there are sentences and paragraphs in the ebook that aren't in the audio. 1mo

RowReads1 Yup! I‘m a Xennial. there is a big divide between older and younger Xers. I‘ve been curious about this one. 1mo

ImperfectCJ @RowReads1 Twenge's cutoff for GenX is 1979, which my younger siblings would take issue with (I'm 1976, they're 1981 and 1983). She does mention Xennials, and she quotes Chuck Klosterman about the differences between younger and older GenX, but that's it. I try not to make too big a deal about microgenerational differences within GenX, but when my GenZ teenager generalizes, I set him straight (then he points out that GenX is ignored online). (edited) 1mo

RowReads1 @ImperfectCJ I don‘t mind that we‘re ignored online. I mean Gen X by Douglas Coupland is basically where the generational names and categorization “so called” officially took off from. We had tons of attention back then. 1mo

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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell

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From dyslexia (my preferred learning disability—and before everyone gets all up in arms, I don‘t actually consider my dyslexia a disability, more like an inconvenience at this point in my life) to the Civil Rights Movement to the Conflict in Northern Ireland, Gladwell challenges the notion of The Underdog. [4.5 ⭐️]

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Awk_Word_Smith

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell

I‘ve been meaning to read this for quite some time now.

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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation | Sophie Lewis

…the norm that makes a prison for adults—especially women—out of their own commitment to children they love.

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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement | David Brooks

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks

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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places | Christopher Brown

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I picked this up on a whim based on a blurb on the cover from author Jeff VanderMeer. A thoughtful and compelling account of Christopher Brown's effort to convert an abandoned lot full of concrete debris and an underground oil pipeline into an unconventional home. Told in brief vignettes and sketches rather than in a linear storyline, Brown's paean to unbridled nature made me yearn for spring and time to work on my chaos garden.

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fredthemoose

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It | Richard Reeves

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⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘m torn on this one. The author highlights important areas where boys lag behind girls (rates of maturation, educational attainment) and ways particularly Black boys experience discrimination and the structural issues they face in school and society. He‘s careful to make clear he does not want to improve outcomes for boys and men at the expense of women. He loses me when talking about how now that women don‘t “need” men, ⬇️

fredthemoose … men are now adrift and don‘t know their roles. I have a hard time thinking of other groups who are waiting for society to present them with their unique, valued role instead of just rolling up their sleeves, figuring out how to use their talents to make a contribution and getting to work. 🤷‍♀️ (edited) 5mo

willaful Nicely put! 5mo

quietlycuriouskate 🎯 5mo

fredthemoose @willaful @quietlycuriouskate thanks. I really struggled with what to think of this. It did make me think and I want to be fair to it. The author was careful never to say it, but it seemed like implicitly a lot of the problem is that men are no long implicit the top of the hierarchy just for existing and that is hard for them and I‘m not the *most* sympathetic to that. (edited) 5mo

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