#NowReading2024 NATIVE TO THE NATION: DISCIPLINING LANDSCAPES & BODIES IN AUSTRALIA by Allaine Cerwonka via Minnesota University Press imbibed at AyaCenter GuruGuru #Ayase#綾瀬
#NowReading2024 JOURNALISM & JIM CROW: WHITE SUPREMACY & THE BLACK STRUGGLE FOR A NEW AMERICA Edited by Kathy Roberts Forde & Sid Bedingfield via University of Illinois Press #Bookstodon#BookMastodon @bookstodon
#NowReading2024 TALK LIKE TED: THE 9 PUBLIC SPEAKING SECRETS OF THE WORLD'S TOP MINDS by Carmine Gallo via Pan Books & Adachi Public Library imbibed at Book Cafe Halekitazawa #Rokugatsu @Bookstodon @BookMastodon @bookstodon
#NowReading2024 SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES: AND OTHER LESSONS FROM THE CREMATORIUM by Caitlin Doughty via Canongate imbibed at Caffe Veloce #Ayase#綾瀬 @Bookstodon @BookMastodon @bookstodon
#NowReading2024 DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE: REFLECTIONS OF WOMEN OF COLOR ON GRADUATE SCHOOL Edited by Kimberly D McKee & Denise A Delgado via @illinoispress.bsky.social brewed with Maruca Coffee #Bookstodon#BookMastodon @bookstodon
@ModernDayBartleby@bookstodon Excellent. The item that blew my mind then (and still rolls around my head) is how she described wanting a *meaningful* job as being a middle class luxury. WOW! (Sounds like I need to dust off my copy.)
#NowReading2024 BEYONCÉ IN THE WORLD: MAKING MEANING WITH QUEEN BEY IN TROUBLED TIMES Edited by Christina Baade & Kristen McGee via Wesleyan University Press imbibed at Yama-no-oto (Sound of the Mountain) #Horifune#堀船 @bookstodon#Bookstodon#BookMastodon
#NowReading2024 ELITE CAPTURE: HOW THE POWERFUL TOOK OVER IDENTITY POLITICS (AND EVERYTHING ELSE) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via via Haymarket Books brewed with Base Camp Coffee @bookstodon#Bookstodon#BookMastodon
@ModernDayBartleby@bookstodon Yep, I come back to her kind of cyclically. Some of my favourite are 'Goodbye Tsugumi', 'Asleep', and one never translated in English (to my knowledge) 'L'ultima amante di Hachiko'
@ModernDayBartleby@bookstodon I have a special soft spot for Asleep as I've read and re-read it through a moment in life were I had troubles sleeping, but it's been like 15 years now since I read it last. Waiting for your impressions.