Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo is a great book! It's fiction that is true, hilarious but tragic and witty but sad. It's mostly about corruption in a fictional African country and how even after the colonizers leave they aren't really gone.
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She/her, bookworm, pro-choice, anti-fascist, yellow -dog Democrat, traveler, Janeite, ex-evangelical. Refugee from the fun Twitter. I would love to start a Jane Austen group, as soon as I figure out how. My avatar is a painting I saw in the Louvre.
I reread Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen before the JASNA AGM. It's better every time. I figured out to touch the little numbers with a highlighter.
#bookstodon I finished Forbidden City by Vanessa Hua a few days ago. It's about a young woman who was in a group used for the amusement of Chairman Mao and other government officials. I guess I should have realized that this would have existed but I was still repeatedly shocked and saddened that women are often seen as less than human. It's very well researched and written.
#bookstodon Either/Or by Elif Batuman is a sequel to The Idiot and is even funnier.
#bookstodon Trespasses by Louise Kennedy is my latest book I finished from the WaPo list. It's set during the height of "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland so there is a lot of violence, mostly second hand. I would recommend it. It was easy for me to see the world through the main character 's eyes. I didn't make the same mistakes she did, but I certainly could have. I was also landed in some similar impossible positions.
#bookstodon I just finished City on Fire by Don Winslow and it is a good read if you like crime fiction. I do so I'm happy it's the first in a trilogy. Also, it was a breath of fresh air after The Books of Jacob.
#bookstodon I just finished The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczok and it took three weeks since it is 963 pages long. If you like to read historical fiction I highly recommend it. I didn't realize it was based on real people for at least halfway through, so I have real respect for the research she did. Her Nobel prize is well deserved.
U.S. Politics in Real TimeBiden's economic policies have quietly made peoples' lives better — and no one seems to care
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Gladwyn d’SouzaOne thing I’ve learned about racist white Southerners with political power: They never take electoral, constitutional, or military defeat as the end of the argument. The cause is never lost. They will defy, always, whatever rules or orders are in place that force them to chew with their mouths closed and be less racist. The question is always whether other white people will let them get away with it. Right now, that “other” white person is Brett freaking Kavanaugh. It’s like finding out that the drunk driver who hit you is also the surgeon assigned to patch you up after the crash - Elie Mystal
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Anybody else still curious who planted the pipe bombs, disabled Mike Pence’s key card, removed the panic button in Ayanna Presley’s office, and shared the locations of non-reinforced Capitol windows?