from [01/23/22] to [12/05/22]
[A Year Of Books]
at [St Anthony Park and Online]
Every Month, Always Sunday Afternoon
Jan. 23
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
(fiction)What does it mean to be human? A very humanistic science fiction of an android becoming a companion for a young girl.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120408
Feb. 27
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
(nonfiction)A brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images that urges us to begin the discussions of racial inequality.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50403499
March 27
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
(fiction)An astrobiologist searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old son.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56404444-bewilderment
April 24
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
(nonfiction)Simard changed science in discovering that trees communicate and work with each other.
https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/54976983-finding-the-mother-tree
May 22
Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos
(fiction)Published in 1929, is “possibly the most widely known Latin American book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/982572-dona-barbara
June 26
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
(fiction)A horse, a dog, two ducks, and a raven meet a human boy! Jane Smiley’s”beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuit, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52578294
July 24
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
(poetry)We read “How the Word” is passed. This is a poetry book by him: a collection of poems about coming of age as a Black man.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29599121-counting-descent
Aug. 28
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
(fiction)Another take on Shakespeare: Agnes is a “fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43890641
Sep. 25
Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People (nonfiction by William Cooke and Laura Ungar
Title says it all--
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57952188-canary-in-the-coal-mine
Oct. 23
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel by Bernardine Evaristo
Stories of Black women in Britain.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41081373-girl-woman-other
Dec. 4
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawaie Strong Washburn
(fiction)“When supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawaii--with tragic consequences--they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family, the meaning of heritage, and the cost of survival.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45892255-sharks-in-the-time-of-saviors
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A Look Back At One Of Our Pandemic Reads - July 2020
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