I am so sorry. It‘s been a crazy weekend.
Do all lives matter?
#ArianneShahvisi #ArguingForABetterWorld #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @bnp @CatLass007 @DrSabrinaMoldenReads @TheBookHippie

I am absolutely heart broken. Three children are having the WORST day of their lives today, for WHAT? Two children are orphans. Is this really what people voted for? THIS. IS. NOT. OKAY. 68 other people and organisations are on a hit list by this gunman.
NO. KINGS.
End the madness.
#MelissaHortman #MarkHortman #JohnHoffman #YvetteHoffman #Minnesota #NoKings #Heartbroken

How is everyone doing after the intro? What are your thoughts going forward?
#ArianneShahvisi #ArguingForABetterWorld #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @bnp @CatLass007 @DrSabrinaMoldenReads @TheBookHippie

This one is about 1/3 fiction (the folk tales) and 2/3 nonfiction… so I‘m running with it as nonfiction.
#KyotaKo #FolkTalesOfJapan #nonfiction #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket

This was actually an easy choice for me. Honestly, this one stuck with me for days after I finished.
#SueMonkKidd #TheBookOfLongings #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #fiction

I‘m definitely in a bit of a reading hangover after finally finishing the Ruthless Desires series. I feel like I‘m getting back in the swing of things now, though.
#MayWrapUp #StoryGraph

Soooooooo… I‘ve had this for two years, and I‘ve never read it. @TheBookHippie posted about June starting tomorrow and I decided it was finally time to crack this bad boy open!
#AllieEsiri #APoemForEverySummerDay #poetry #summer #seasonal #SeasonalPoetry #SummerPoetry

Read the into today. Enjoying it so far. Can‘t wait for our discussions.
#ArianneShahvisi #ArguingForABetterWorld #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety

This book also introduced me to the concept of the baby Buddha, and it‘s just beyond adorable. It‘s an internet rabbit hole of adorableness!
#KyotaKo #FolkTalesOfJapan #BabyBuddha #Buddha #Buddhism #Japan

This was so wonderful to listen to. It was like an extended YouTube video. His YouTube videos are the best. I can‘t wait for the other two books in his trilogy to be turned into audiobooks. They are absolutely brilliant when he‘s telling the stories, plus I know I‘m getting the right pronunciations then. 100% recommend. If you haven‘t seen his videos on YouTube yet, go look for Kyota Ko on YouTube. You won‘t regret it.
#KyotaKo #FolkTalesOfJapan

This is a wonderful look at into the work of Adam Savage. It‘s part memoir, part science, part shop talk. It was fun to hear him talk about creating. Even though I create in a much different way than him, I took a lot away from this lovely book. It‘s funny and uplifting, encouraging everyone to nurture their inner creator.
#AdamSavage #EverytToolsAHammer #ReadByTheAuthor

This book is insufferable. I‘m 14% of the way in and cannot listen another minute. This man needs to check his biases. All fat people are slothful and gluttonous. Diabetics never do what he tells them, so they never get better. The loss of bookstores are proof of Americans‘ unhappiness. Depression is because of a history of “chronic, excessive reward.”
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I started this yesterday while donating plasma. So far, I like it.
#AdamSavage #EveryToolsAHammer #audiobook

I greatly enjoyed the inclusion of The Thunder, Perfect Mind in this story. It seemed fitting and it worked beautifully. I appreciated the use of CE (current era) as opposed to AD. It makes sense for the story, but it is also in accordance with academic parlance and gives the book more weight, a more solid foundation. I liked the use of the Jewish months as opposed to our current months.
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This was a beautiful and - no doubt - comforting sentiment. Sadly, it has not come to pass. For Ana, yes. After that, not only have all his acts of love been squandered, they have been outright defiled and continue to be so. The current climate of the USA is testament to this defilement.
#SueMonkKidd #TheBookOfLongings #love #LoveIsRevolutionary

I‘m sitting here, enjoying this book… and now some server problem is preventing me from continuing… mid conversation about how much of a “devil” her creepy old man betrothed is. EXCUSE ME, I NEED TO KNOW THIS NOW!!!
#SueMonkKidd #TheBookOfLongings #audiobook #FirstWorldProblems

Here goes nothing… #SueMonkKidd #TheBookOfLongings #audiobook

Sorry guys, it‘s been a crazy few weeks. I finally got this done. If this is too early to start, we can push it back some. Let me know.

1 June - Intro
8 June - Can You Be Racist to a White Person?
15 June - Has'Political Correctness' Gone Too Far?
22 June - What's Wrong with Dog Whistles?
29 June - Is It Sexist to Say'Men Are Trash'?
13 July - Do All Lives Matter?
20 July - Who Should We Believe?
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I only read 28 books in April. In all fairness, I got lost in Stardew Valley. It‘s a great game to play while listening to audiobooks, but I‘m so into the game that when the book ends I just keep playing. Go figure.
#AprilWrapUp #StoryGraph

I mostly read nonfiction in April, so this was a hard choice.
#SallyBedellSmith #ElizabethTheQueen #QueenElizabeth #history #england #uk #UnitedKingdom #nonfiction #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket

Seeing that this is the only work of fiction I read in April, I guess it gets this month‘s win by default.
#PeterDavid #Imzadi #StarTrek #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #NextGeneration #TNG #Riker #Troi #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #fiction

This book was even better the second time around. It‘s a wonderful, funny, entertaining reminder to fight the good fight. I can only imagine what he‘d be saying now if he were still with us in 2025. This book would never be read or taken seriously by a conservative audience, but it absolutely should be. If nothing else, this is a prime example of why conservatives are so afraid of history and historians.

I enjoyed this one so much last time, I just need to read it again.
#EdAsner #TheGrouchyHistorian #ReadByTheAuthor

Scientific takedown of creationism. A good intro to quantum physics. It does get very slightly technical in some places. Quick read.
#StephenHawking #LeonardMlodinow #TheGrandDesign #QuantumPhysics

It‘s Stephen Hawking. What can I say?
#StephenHawking #LeonardMlodinow #TheGrandDesign #QuantumPhysics

This felt like 6 shows that had adults playing teens, and 1 that actually cast teens. After Fresh Prince, So-Called, and Dawson‘s, it felt like the book deteriorated into ways show business is horrible to people - people in show business, fans, and people in general - and how that was expressed in the next four shows.
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Perhaps Glassman should have called ANY Celtic Thunder fan, ANY Damian McGinty fan, ANYone involved in creating Celtic Thunder or literally ANYone in all of Ireland. It‘s really bad when you mispronounce the name of an internationally famous band. Just saying. This ain‘t Boston where they are so disconnected from the Irish Celtic roots they think a C sounds like an S. 🤦🏼‍♀️
#TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #CelticThunder

This was the BIGGEST show among my friend group when it first came out. We. Were. Obsessed. Somehow, I don‘t remember a lot of it.
#DawsonsCreek #TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #90sTV

This show still holds up! The 20-something at my daycare back in the early 90s laughed so hard when I did the whole theme song. Everyday, he‘d say “do it! Do it!” And I‘d do the whole theme song again.
#FreshPrince #WillSmith #TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #90sTV

Valuable and important reading in modern society, especially if you were ever taught the catechism of Texas history.

I didn‘t grow up in Texas, so I dodged these lessons in school, but I did learn a lot about Texas history, including The Alamo, during an internship with a historical society.
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I greatly enjoyed this book, but I am really struggling with how to review it. I am much closer to this madness that I wish I were, and I don‘t want to put myself or my future at risk by saying anything that could identify me to people who could literally destroy my career or any hope of ever having one… but it is hard to not include those things, because the lies told about The Alamo are truly disturbing and disgusting.

This is true, and yet the country is currently doubling down on these issues.
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory

Conservatives, especially Texas conservatives, are so worried about how white children feel about their ancestors being slave owners and slave owning being framed as bad in history class. They are never worried about how other children feel while sitting in history class or how their white classmates treat them because of what is taught in those classes.
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory

This is way more accurate than anything you‘d learn in a Texas history classroom.
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory

Texans have been down with total BS and fake news since the beginning.
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory

Texans have always believed themselves to be so much better than reality shows them. This is still, unfortunately, largely true. What a shock, they‘re anti-Catholic too.
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory

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#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory #WilliamBarrettTravis

Nearly wet myself last night when I read this part!
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory #WilliamBarretTravis

I agree with John Steinbeck. It‘s amazing how true this is, and how it continues to be true. If anything, people are doubling down on this these days.
#ForgetTheAlamo #BryanBurrough #ChrisTomlinson #JasonStanford #Texas #TexasHistory

#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor #UnpopularOpinion #VERYUnpopularOpinion
Here goes nothing. Let‘s break some hearts!
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I‘m hoping this will be a nice pick me up to help me get my mind off of my total PTSD fueled day and that I get to essentially repeat it on Friday.
#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor

Lovely and meandering in the best possible way. Seriously, I‘m not sure how Queen Elizabeth‘s handbags haven‘t gotten some kind of honour for their decades of silent and faithful service. I got oddly emotional at points, especially later in the book (maybe because I personally remember the emotion of those moments). I‘m glad it ended shortly after William and Kate‘s wedding, because I bawled at the end of The Crown and could not handle that again.

There were some surprising facts in this book that made it really interesting. I think anyone with a beating heart could learn something from this book. It also discusses the challenges to making greater strides in medical treatment for heart conditions around the world. It‘s really amazing what this little, fist sized muscle in your chest can do.
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No citation was given for this statistic, but I would certainly be interested in hearing more about this. That really seems like a lot.
#SianEHarding #ExquisiteMachine #LifeExpectancy #centenarian

Who knew WHERE you walk is just as important as IF you walk.
#SianEHarding #ExquisiteMachine #exercise #walk #pollution #AirPollution #HeartHealth #BloodVessels #CardiovascularHealth

From the brain to the heart… let‘s do this.
#SianEHarding #TheExquisiteMachine #audiobook

This is amazingly philosophical. It addresses the neurology behind in-groups and out-groups. It clearly lays out the ways perception is entirely inside of our brains, and even how by the time we are aware of any given moment, that moment has already passed. Eagleman takes a profoundly complex topic and makes it accessible to the masses to the point that it becomes entirely enjoyable.
#DavidEagleman #TheBrain #ReadByTheAuthor #science #philosophy