It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
Currently Reading
I started The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Penguin Random House, 2019) last week hoping to finish it before the end of Black History Month. Even with having an extra day in February and its being a short book (224 pp), I didn’t. It’s a sad book – a discouraging look at our country’s not long-past history – with a new flagrant act of racial injustice described in gut-wrenching detail in every chapter.
“The Nickel Boys draws its inspiration from incidents of abuse at the real-life Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed reformatory school in Florida that operated for more than a century. Though the facility opened with apparently good intentions to bring a more enlightened approach to the treatment of troubled and orphaned youngsters, it devolved into an underworld of torture, rape and murder.”
Ron Charles, The Washington Post 07/09/2019
Currently Listening To
The Bright Hour by Michael Cunningham
I’ve been listening to The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs on audio, narrated by Cassandra Campbell with Kirby Heyborne, as a follow-up to When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, which I listened to last month. Both authors received terminal cancer diagnoses in their 30s and wrote with grace and dignity about their experiences and emotions.
Thanks for visiting! Happy Monday and please let me know what you’re reading this week in the comments
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (#IMWAYR) is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It’s a place to meet up and share what you have been, are, and about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment, and er… add to that ever-growing TBR pile! This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at Book Date.
Wow! What a diverse reading week. Enjoy the week ahead! Stop by if you get a chance:
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Colletta
I bought the Nina Riggs book at the beginning of the year and look forward to getting to it. I might see if my library has the audiobook. Have a good week!
Your reading matter has been rather depressing during the past week.
Wishing you a happier reading week
That’s true! No more depressing than the real-life political news this week, though!
I’m sure that “The Bright Hour” is a profound experience. I think it would be one of those “before and after” books for me hope you enjoy it!
It was very moving. After I let a little time go by, I’m planning to read or listen to The Unwinding of the Miracle:
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams, who was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer at the age of 37. I have a tendency to feel sorry for myself over the littlest thing, so these are my reminders to stop it!