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ninsiana0

Read MODEL HOME by Rivers Solomon if you love quintessential queer black literature, haunted houses, fractured families, sprawling suburbs, loving cups of tea, gut-punching prose, late night sanctuary diners, Jenny Holzer's Abuse of Power, Mothers, dissociating, running away & the unexplainable.

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Kelsie

This book was recommended by my therapist. I am so glad I found it. This author's life mirrors some of my own. I felt the heartbreak of breaking free from a broken family, and I felt the struggles of starting a higher education after almost no real schooling (thanks, mom). I had to earn my GED first, but close enough.
Honestly, it was so hard for me that it took a couple of years to read it. It has a special place on my bookshelf.
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Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥

I highly recommend the Burnout book by the Nagoskis. It's easy to read and incredibly relieving even within the first chapter. They share context on what burnout is and where it comes from, which directly connects to grounding the practical actions you can take to effectively address burnout

There are also burnout factors that are NOT in your control, and they don't beat around the bush in acknowledging that — which stands out as a rare gem among these sorts of books (most either leave that out or make it their whole schtick)
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burnoutbook.net/

burnoutburnoutBurnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, a book by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. and Amelia Nagoski, D.M.A
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Common Sparrow

Today's book recommendation for Black History Month is "The Exiles of Florida" by Joshua Giddings. (1858)

This book explores the intersection between black history and Native American history. At a time when Florida was still part of Spanish territory, people escaping the slave states of Georgia, Mississippi, and the Carolinas fled south. Florida was closer than the northern free states, and Spain had a policy of providing refuge to black fugitives from the slave states.

In Florida, they found allies among the Seminole, who welcomed them in and gave them a home. They became caught up in the wars between the United States government and the Seminole. The "Seminole Wars" had a series of causes, including territorial expansion of the United States and plans to take Seminole land and remove the Seminole to reservations.

But as the author Joshua Giddings, a prominent abolitionist, made clear in this book, the recovery of their "property", (black slaves), played a very large part in the continuance of these attacks. While Seminole were either killed or moved to reservations, black fugitives were returned to slavery.

Link to a free public domain audiobook at LibriVox:

librivox.org/the-exiles-of-flo

Link to a free public domain copy of the book at Project Gutenberg:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/41316

librivox.orgLibriVoxLibriVox
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Common Sparrow

Today's book recommendation for Black History Month is "The Black Box: Writing the Race" by Henry Louis Gates. (2024)

This book is based on the series of lectures the author presented to his African American Studies class at Harvard.

It traces the development of black literature in the United States from colonial times to the present, and how black writers used words on paper to define and explore collective black identity.

Through the works of such writers as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Rich­ard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, Gates traces how black writers grappled with issues central to black experience, and engaged in spirited argument about what it means to be black.

From the publisher's synopsis of the book:

"This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of—and resisted confinement in—the black box inside which this nation within a nation has been assigned, willy-nilly, from the nation’s founding through to today."

Publisher's information about his book:

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6

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PenguinRandomhouse.comThe Black Box by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: 9780593299807 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA New York Times Notable Book “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation...
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Common Sparrow

Today's book recommendation for Black History Month is "Better Living Through Birding" by Christian Cooper.

In May 2020, we all saw the news of the Central Park "Incident" (as Cooper calls it). While birding in the park, Cooper asked a white woman to leash her dog, as unleashed dogs were not permitted in that area. She called the police to falsely complain that a black man was "threatening" her.

Cooper devotes one chapter, near the end of this book, to a discussion of that disturbing incident. But it's only one chapter in a book which is mainly a celebration of life and birds.

The book is partly a personal memoir of Cooper's life, growing up as a gay black youth, working at Marvel comics, and travelling the world, with love of birds always threaded through it all.

It's that thread of birding which ties it all together. The book is a lively celebration of the beauty and fascination to be found in birds and in the natural world. The "Seven Joys of Birding" are explored, along with the reminder that birds can reconnect us to the larger life outside our personal preoccupations.

It's important to remember that life is more than its darkest moments. Books like this acknowledge dark moments exist, but move beyond them to bring us zesty reminders of the value of creativity, exploration, and intellectual curiosity.

Link to publisher's info about this book
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6

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PenguinRandomhouse.comBetter Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper: 9780593242407 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventu...
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Common Sparrow

Today's book recommendation for Black History Month is William Still's Underground Railroad memoirs.

William Still (1821-1902) was born in New Jersey to parents who had removed themselves from slavery. When he was in his mid-20’s, he moved to Philadelphia and began to work for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, at first as a clerk, and then as the chairman of the Committee which assisted escaped slaves.

He diligently recorded every story of every single man, woman, or child who passed through the Philadelphia Underground Railroad offices. He knew having records would make it possible for separated family members to find each other again, but he kept these records hidden and secret, to protect the individuals who might be recaptured.

The first major audiobook project I worked on, when I began recording books for LibriVox, was the 5-volume complete collection of all of William Still's records. This was a life-changing project to have been part of, and I've never forgotten it.

I wrote my thoughts about it in my book blog at that time. Rather than try to write them again here, I'll post the link to my blog entry for anyone who would like to read it -
mariasbooks.wordpress.com/2013

The LibriVox audiobook of William Still's "Underground Railroad" memoir is available here -
librivox.org/group/551?primary

The complete public domain text is available from Project Gutenberg here -
gutenberg.org/ebooks/15263

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Maria's Books · The Underground RailroadThe Underground Railroad by William Still Today marked the completion of the massive five-volume Underground Railroad project at LibriVox, as the fifth and final volume was catalogued. I’ve b…
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Ali Clarke :flag_tino:

Another 1990s book I picked up in the op shop is The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. It takes a figure who appears briefly in the bible - Dinah, daughter of Jacob - and tells her story from her own perspective. Great to get a woman’s view of those times! A really gripping read.

(includes graphic descriptions of childbirth and death, so here’s a CW for those)

A paperback book - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. The cover includes a painting of an olive-skinned woman with dark hair, her arms clasped over her head and looking anxious. She is wearing draped robes of cream and burgundy, with a green pendant around her neck and a bracelet on her upper arm.
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Common Sparrow

"Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times" by Eyal Press is a book I first read a dozen years ago. I've been thinking about it lately, because its lessons seem more relevant than ever in our present situation.

It's about the willingness of individuals to stand against the tide, to say, "Nope, not going along with this", when confronted with immoral or unethical demands.

What impact can a single person have? How can one person stop an avalanche? This book shows us cases where someone wasn't paralyzed by that question, but did the obviously right thing anyway, under the pressure of surrounding group conformity.

I wrote about this book in more detail at that time, in a book blog I was keeping then. I think I want to re-read it again now, and to recommend it to others.

mariasbooks.wordpress.com/2013

Maria's Books · Beautiful SoulsBeautiful Souls by Eyal Press “Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times” This is the second time in about a year that I’ve been drawn back to t…
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