Please watch this. It will make you smile. And it will break your heart. https://aeon.co/videos/young-palestinians-find-fleeting-moments-of-freedom-at-a-west-bank-skate-park
Category: Summer Reading 2024
An exceptional conversation between Helena de Groot and Catherine Barnett. Well worth a listen… https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/74636/poetryofftheshelf
This, this is a stunner of a book. Gorgeous! I chose to listen to it and I felt like I was listening to a book length poem. A verbal painting. An aural landscape. I felt transported. Orbital describes a 24 hour cycle in the lives of six astronauts in near earth orbit in a space
Hey y’all – the year is wrapping up and I find myself intrigued by people’s roundups of reading and such. This is the best one I’ve seen yet: https://shiraerlichman.substack.com/p/my-top-6-novels-of-2024 To boot, I have the Virginia Woolf novel on my shelf and am inspired to dig into it thanks to @shiraerlichman What are you reading?
Been a minute since I was on aeon.co — If you know me, you know I’m an anarchist (anarcho-syndicalist to be precise). This article is a warm and fuzzy explanation of modern day anarchism you may enjoy: https://aeon.co/essays/what-san-francisco-carpooling-tells-us-about-anarchism
Where to start? This book was such an unexpected pleasure. It was funny – hilarious even. It was riveting, eye opening, a surprisingly easy read. The impulse to read this book came from my desire to understand, really understand, what makes a person make the kind of decision that Navalny made – to return to
I found this book in my bookcase on my ‘to read’ shelf. It is an award winning fictional graphic novel that recounts the author’s ‘birthright’ trip to Israel. The book was published in 2016. After having a debate with her mother about the State of Israel, Glidden decides she will take advantage of a free
So these three went back to the library today — The Cat in the Hat was read about 12 or 15 times, Bewilderment was never read beyond the first page, and Slonim Woods 9 got a skim. Slonim Woods 9 is a memoir that relates to the Hulu series Stolen Youth – Inside the Cult
When We Cease to Understand the World is a thought-provoking read for folks interested in the lives of the pioneers whose scientific genius changed the world. The book was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. It explores the lives and ideas of Fritz Haber, Alexander
Not everyone may be as enamored of color as I am but, for me, watching this was like enjoying a good meal. The colors, the process, the history. Pure pleasure.
Seasonal Reading 