You have seen How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi, recommended across social media and on every list of books about racism. In the weeks after George Floyd, it felt like reading Kendi’s book was the action point to start with.
It’s been hard to distill what I want to share about this book, so I’ll start with what my mom told me about it after she sent it a copy to me to read during quarantine: “It’s good.”
What The Wind Knows, by Amy Harmon falls into a unique category that makes it special.
Each day, it seems like we are rewriting another segment of history by adding the silenced chapters – particularly from BIPOC and women. We’re experiencing an opportunity to flesh history out so that the stars aren’t just white guys. The beauty of it is, the stars were never just white guys.
Take Elizebeth Friedman, born in 1892. She became one of the pioneer code breakers at a time when the CIA and the FBI were just coming in to being.
What do you know about the Korean War? How about what life was like on the Korean Peninsula before the Korean War?
If you want to get a glimpse into a little of the history, these books will give two very different perspectives.
When my library announced online book clubs, I was all in. Our library has a number of online offerings, which they’ve increased since the beginning of the pandemic, and there are now quite a few book clubs up and running and I’m signed up for most of them.
