Books on the Nightstand discussion

Wow! Half the year is gone. I'd be ready to end the year except I'm behind on my 2020 reading challenge.

I am reading The Promise of Stardust and She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy and listening to The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (Group read)
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Group read)
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler (Group read)
The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison (Group read)
The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (Group read)
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (Group read)
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (Pleasure read)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kintu
Kindred
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
When No One Is Watching

Just read The Silent Patient, Ever Told, and Normal People. Trying to stay in the reading groove with this gorgeous weather.

I'm currently reading

Me, too! I've got about 18 hours left on the audio.

Karen wrote: "I'm currently reading "

I just finished , and am trying to decided between these two for my next read:



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Listening to

Finished The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished The Promise of Stardust and returned to Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist but this time the book (rather than listening)

Starting to Listen to The Enigma Game..

Finished Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Listening to THE ENIGMA GAME by Elizabeth Wein.

Finished on audio.

Finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I’m reading A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza.

Reading two books this month: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by the audacious Anne Lamott. Also reading: The House of Broken Angels for our book group.

Finished Followers by Megan Angelo

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished The Nickel Boys https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

actually finished reading in June, after buying a copy from HPB a day before the pandemic closed many retail outlets in MN.
I cannot recommend this journalist's books highly enough. There's a lot of details in this one, but the way he blends his parallel travels through the South/Southwest to Olmsted's in the mid-19th century is fascinating. His insights reveal a lot about what has and hasn't changed regarding culture, class, race, geography, climate. Not elitist in the least (well, not VERY) Tony Horwitz (R.I.P. 2019) deserves to be on every serious U.S. historian's reading list.