This is a great story about a real person that I just learned about and so wanted to learn more- Charlie Parkhurst.
102. 3 American Indian Stories narrated by Katie Hugh
I enjoyed this book but wow! Information on this audiobook is lacking!!
103. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes and read by Kirby Heyborne
What a balm to my soul! Fred is a very mild-mannered accountant who prior to the start of the book became a mild-mannered accountant vampire. He has a very dull life that was at least initially was also a very dull undead life. He does have adventures and quite a few exciting things happen to him but he's always a reluctant participant.
What a balm to my soul! Fred is a very mild-mannered accountant who prior to the start of the book became a mild-mannered accountant vampire. He has a very dull life that was at least initially was also a very dull undead life. He does have adventures and quite a few exciting things happen to him but he's always a reluctant participant.
104. Leave the World Behind by Rmaan Alam and read by Marin Ireland
This book has a really interesting premise. The main characters are in a vacation rental and suddenly the owners of the rental appear on their doorstep saying that something appears to have gone down and they'd just feel better if they could stay in their home instead of going back to the city. Well, they renters don't remember them as being the owners and since they are white and the owners are Black we as the readers have to look at what is the reason for their discomfort. Has something really happened? Are they really the owners? Should they let them in? Unfortunately for me the premise was much more interesting than the execution...
105. Undeath & Taxes by Drew Hayes and read by Kirby Heyborne
I devoured these books!!
I've read 105 books and 78 were by woman, 22 were by men, 3 were anthologies by both women and men, 1 was by a nonbinary author, and 1 had no author listed. Additionally 9 1/2 were translations (although the book 3 American Indian Stories could be a translation as well). My year of reading lots of women and at least 12 translations is going well in that I've read mostly female authors, but the world is going through a pandemic and state sanctioned murders in the form of police brutality with a horrible man still at the helm and supported by horrible men in the Congress. In short this year has been really rough. What will this global health crisis leave us with? What changes will we make, not only in terms of the huge inequities of our health system where people of color and the poor (which let's face it- the system works really hard to ensure that people of color, especially black people, are poor) are more than extremely disadvantaged, but also all the other ways in which our society, our systems, actively damage people of color? Only time will tell. But I hope it is a greater sense of community, a need to care for one and another and support each other, not just people with the same colored skin as ourselves, not just people with the same sized wallet as ours. My naive? hope is all of this isolation leaves us wanting to lift each other up and not hold others down.
No comments:
Post a Comment