Thanks for sharing the list of your books on race because I haven’t read any of those. I wonder how similar versus distinct our racial issues are on either side of the pond….

It has been an interesting few months of reading! I’ve been reading lots of books for review and lots of books that came available from my library’s hold.

Yes, this list did stretch me, Jean. I’ll need to revisit the notes I took from some of them too to more fully digest them. Some books are heavy meals meant to be lingered over.

I’ve had a “Race & Racism” TBR list on the go for a while but I’ve avoided reading on the topic as it’s become such a bandwagon. I don’t think I entirely agree with the BLM perspective, and the reading I have lined up reflects that. Mainly Kenan Malik’s 2008 “Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate” and Karen & Barbara Fields’ 2014 “Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life”. I’d also like to read CLR James’ 1938 history of the Haiti slave revolt “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”.

I too take my time sometimes too long of a time to read a book.

Just got Always a guest here too.

It was an interesting month to read several of these books concurrently because the topics overlapped. I hadn’t really planned it that way per se, but it was a great benefit to my understanding! Thanks for the visit, Jill.

I so agree, Tammy: if we could make just one change, improving our listening might be the one to make. It might solve lots of other issues.

I’m hearing that thought a lot this year, that it’s been harder to read. Looking ahead to 2021! 🙂