Sunday, December 29, 2024

More books

I accomplished my goal of reading 24 books this year and read a 25th one just to celebrate the accomplishment. Bun and I read 8 (*) together, some were for school and others with the ARC, Include Me's Disability Acceptance Through Literature book studies. After signing up for the book study, ARC sends us the book and, we all meet virtually once a week to talk about it. It's been fun.

My favorite books on this list have been authored by Black women: Angela Tucker, Uche Blackstock, Sharon Draper, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Their discussions on racial disparities in America are really eye-opening.

Bun Bun's required reading for school have WWII themes - Echo and Code Talker. I've been reading some other fictions and non-fictions works and watching war movies and TV shows set in those time periods.

American Prometheus, Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

*Song for a Whale, Lynne Kelly

How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu

Democracy Awakening, Heather Cox Richardson

Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann

Lessons from Plants, Beronda Montgomery (corn, beans, squash)

The Worlds I See, Fei Fei Li

*Good Different, Meg Eden Kuyatt

*Unfriended, Rachel Vail

You Should Be Grateful, Angela Tucker

Legacy, Uche Blackstock

Class, Stephanie Land

*A Blind Guide to Stinkville, Beth Vrabel

Tell Me When It’s Over, Paul Offit

Uncommon Types: Some Stories, Tom Hanks

*Echo, Pam Munoz Ryan

The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne 

*Code Talker, Joseph Bruchac

*Blended, Sharon Draper

On Call, Anthony Fauci

All the Broken Places, John Boyne 

*Better with Butter, Victoria Piontek

Lovely One, Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Sirens of Mars, Sarah Stewart Johnson

Making a Scene, Constance Wu


Happy New Year, Readers!

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