What I'm Reading
I'm sharing some things that I've been reading recently. I found them either thought-provoking, comforting, absorbing, and/or inspiring. All were a pleasure to read. They include children's story books and graphic novels, bestsellers, magazine articles, interviews and some academic pieces. (Began in December 2021.)
Books - Fiction and Non-Fiction
- Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted, Daniel Sokatch (Author), Christopher Noxon (Illustrator), 2021.
- It. Goes. So. Fast. Mary Louise Kelley, 2023.
Articles, Essays, Interviews
- "Black-Asian Solidarities and the Impasses of 'How-To' Anti-Racisms," Elizabeth Hanna Rubio, Journal of Anthropology for North America, 2021.
- Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism, Laura Bear, Karen Ho, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Sylvia Yanagisako. Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2015.
Children and Young Adult
- Two Tribes, Emily Bowen Cohen, 2023.
- the Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-saving Invention, Carrie A.
- K. A. Applegate, Michael Grant, Chris Grine (Illustrator), 2023.
Archived Listings
Books
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2021.
- The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea, Christopher Lebron, 2017.
- High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, Jessica Harris, 2012.
- The Premonition, Michael Lewis
- Passing for Perfect, erin Khue Ninh
- Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes, Stephen Bloom
- This is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan.
- Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing and Prisons, edited by Colin Kaepernick
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
- The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking, Chang Ying-Ying
Articles, Essays, Interviews
- I Grew Up Celebrating New Year’s Eve Like Frederick Douglass, Esau McCaulley, guest essay, NYT, Dec. 30, 2021.
- What’s Wrong With ‘All Lives Matter’? - interview of Judith Butler by George Yancy, 2015.
- Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher - interview of Emily Lee by George Yancy, 2015.
Children and Young Adult
- Alte Zachen / Old Things,
- Lisa
- Growing Pangs, Kathryn Ormsbee, 2022.
- The Giver, Lois Lowry, Illustrated by P. Craig Russell, 2020.
- Stealing Home, J. Torres, 2022.
- When You Look Up, Decur, 2020.
- Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker, Shelley Johannes, 2017.
- The Breakaways, Cathy Johnson, 2019.
- Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, Rey Teriero, 2019.
- All My Friends, Hope Larsen, 2022.
- Cheer Up! Love and Pompons, Crystal Frasier, 2021.
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble, 1978.
- Mr. Megler, Beethoven, and Me, David Gutnick, 2018.
- Girl on a Motorcycle, Amy Novesky
- Juan Hormiga, Gustavo Roldan
- Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor, Patricia Valdez
- Poem in My Pocket, Chris Tougas and Josee Bisaillon
- Try It: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat, Mara Rockliff
- Flowers for Sarajevo, John McCutcheon
- The Ballad of Yaya (series), Patrick Marty, Jean-Marie Omont, and Charlotte Girard
- The Nameless City (series), Faith Erin Hicks
- The Way of the Hive, Jay Hosler
- The 5 O'Clock Band, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
- The Miracle of the Potato Latkes, Malka Penn
- In the Month of Kislev, Nina Jaffe
- A Long Road on a Short Day, Gary D. Schmidt, Eugene Yelchin, Elizabeth Stickney
- This is the Rope, Jacqueline Woodson
- The Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
- The Legend of Auntie Po, Sing Yin Khor
- Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas, Sam Maggs
- The Okay Witch, Emma Steinkellner
- 5 Worlds (Series), Mark Siegel
- Kafka and the Doll, Larissa Theule
- When Stars are Scattered, Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
- The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster
- The Most Beautiful Thing, Kao Kalia Yang