#100bookschallenge

[stormcandy-blerd]

Book 18 of 100: #BeingBlack by #AngelKyodoWilliams @zenchangeangel. The book is about using Zen Buddhism as a tool to engage both spiritual, social, and personal acceptance in a world that can be overwhelming. It explains several of the primary concepts of Zen Buddhism and how using these can help navigate the landscape of life from a Black point of view. This work was very insightful! #Nerdpost #reading #readinggoal #100booksinayear #supportlibraries

[pjmendez]

James Baldwin
THE FIRE NEXT TIME
Vintage International (1993); first published Dial Press (1963)/Penguin (1964) These two essays, “My Dungeon Shook – Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation” and “Down at the Cross – Letter from a Region in My Mind” were first published in The New Yorker in 1963, before the Civil Rights Act was passed, and it is conceivable that Down at the Cross in particular did as much as any Martin Luther King speech or Supremes Number One pop hit to change the minds of white Americans. The entirety of James Baldwin’s legend can be found in this one essay – his incisiveness, honesty, lyrical spleen, poise – so if there’s a single essential Baldwin text, I’d nominate this. He was trained as an adolescent preacher, and upon realising that institutional religion was stultifying him, could only turn to literature (no longer “forced to kneel at the foot of the cross” by a white Christian slaver called Baldwin); it is with the passion of a preacher that he mediates the truth. Contemporaneously, the FBI opened its grubby, shrill, racist, paranoid, 1,800-page, eight-year file on Baldwin, and the meetings he had with Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, recalled in Down at the Cross, are charged with precariousness; he felt he needed to support their cause, but also to make it known that he wasn’t about to join another religious order. This 106-page volume is a mandatory annual read, to remind everyone that for all the progress people claim has been made in race relations, some person of colour somewhere nearby will still be experiencing every word and more. Oh, and “We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the sum of our achievement”? Not only should he have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he should also have won in Chemistry, for tea that has stayed boiling since 1963! #JamesBaldwin #thefirenexttime #100booksin2019 #100bookschallenge #essays #race #civilrights
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[groundhogdaychallenge]

Thehundredbooks.com/ulysses.htm I read an abridged version of #ulysses Yesterday in about an hour. Not bad #100bookschallenge #100books #100bookschallenge #ulyssesunleashed #100bookstoreadbeforeyoudie #classics #abridgedbooks #abridgedclassics https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1aV_4uHcW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[alexandraoliviamello]

Max and I are crushing our reading goal of 2020 🕯📚✨ #100bookschallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/CH6bSU8hCa5dG4KYy0bYz9M4GreUUGD-q0aeyw0/?igshid=1iwxj3jx0kcs5

[nelehjr]

YOUR FEED NEEDS SOME GOOD NEWS, DARN IT!!! In spite of 2020, in spite of being fired from the library, in spite of all the book stores and libraries shutting down due to a global pandemic, I STILL managed to read 100 books this year. I am so proud of myself! Y'all, I worked so hard for this. And yes, I read every children's book I could lay my filthy mitts on. Still counts! I spent my stimulus check beefing up my non-fiction collection; I passed out books to my community, as much as I could once I was finished with them. I MADE IT. So please enjoy cute cartoon mermaid me enjoying piles of books. #MermaidMe #Read #100bookschallenge #100Books #IJustRead100Books #AGirlWhoReads #2020 #2020Sucks #2020SucksButIDidIt #IRead #GoodreadsChallenge #Goodreads #goodreadschallenge2020 (at Goshen County, Wyoming) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHMEky4Aaz1/?igshid=830c3iik88be

[taniasequinho]

New blog post on the blog.

[mrsjigsaw4106]

Finished #book2 this morning! So far, so good! #100bookschallenge #2down #98togo #bookworm https://www.instagram.com/p/BsqisJ6A3xi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1td6dfv4ah5c4

[jessicaweymouth]

When did I stop having the time to read? I don’t remember it happening 📚 this challenge is going to be harder than I thought! #americangods #neilgaiman #100bookschallenge (at Sherborne Town)

[meetmybujo]

Aktualizacja #100bookschallenge 1.01.2017 - 4.07. 2017

65 książek w 6 miesięcy. Można? Można. :)

[silclay-blog]

Nr. 7 🐂 #100bookschallenge #number7 #americangods #neilgaiman #book #bookstagram #bookworm #books #booklover #read #reading #ig_books #igersbook #italy #italia #ig_italia #ig_italy #igersitalia #igersitaly (presso Caravaggio, Italy)

[stormcandy-blerd]

Book 16 of 100: #claysark by #octaviabutler. It is the 3rd book of the #Patternmaster series. It is the story of many layers. Set in the near future of #mindofmymind, technically our current time, in a world thrown into chaos by both harsh climate change and socioeconomic gaps. The meaning of haves and have nots, are determined by walled cities and guns. A family on a road trip finds themselves at the mercy of abductors with a dark secret. #Nerdpost #reading #readinggoal #supportlibraries #100booksinayear #afrofrutrism

[pjmendez]

Sally Rooney NORMAL PEOPLE Faber & Faber (2018) One of the most hyped novels of recent times. One of the most-hyped writers, in fact. She writes with an offhand, no-bullshit tone that borders on arrogance until you realise it’s not her fault she’s clever, and remind yourself that cleverness is not a fault. She writes irrepressibly about the murkier edges of the high-end university experience, for students of similar ability but from different income brackets, in both her novels, and although sometimes you might feel her characters need a slap, you still sympathise with them. What’s remarkable is her economy – she is so vivid in her simplicity. I read part of Normal People on a train through snow-covered Connecticut and Massachusetts, on a palely-lit day, where there were hundreds of parked boats and yachts all sheathed in their white winter covers. As her sentences popped like playground handclaps, I was reminded of the JMW Turner sketch ”Boats at Sea”, in which, with the absolute bare minimum of watercolour brushstrokes, he evokes weather, brightness, time of day, sound, temperature, and the size, shape, speed and direction of the boats. Some artists have the ability to do the most with the least; we should know what’s coming when one of the protagonists, Marianne, at a nightclub early in the novel, describes the music as a “pounding Destiny’s Child track”, the word “pounding” suddenly taking on a passive, feminine meaning. The author knows what we know, so doesn’t have to be submissive (ironically, for what comes later in the novel) and can describe a Kanye West song as “the one with the Curtis Mayfield sample”. Conversations With Friends and Normal People together remind me of West’s first two albums, The College Dropout and Late Registration, sharing higher-education themes and a game-evolving freshness of voice. I can’t wait for her Graduation. #sallyrooney #normalpeople #hardback #fiction #100bookschallenge #100booksin2019 #faberandfaber https://www.instagram.com/p/BwMwESaFm0g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dd7ghnctdjqh

[jessicaweymouth]

Aaaaaaaaare yoooooooooou reaaaaaadddddddyyyyyyyy!!!! 😍🎬📚 SO EXCITED!!! ❤️ #100movieschallenge #100bookschallenge #100bookschallenge2018 (at Sherborne)

[stormcandy-blerd]

Book 15 of 100. #Patternmaster by #octaviabutler. The first book of the series, but the last book in the chronology of the series. Set in the future from #mindofmymind Two brothers fight. One for supremacy and the other for freedom. #Nerdpost #reading #readinggoal #supportlibraries #100booksinayear #afrofrutrism

[pjmendez]

James Baldwin GIOVANNI’S ROOM Penguin Great Loves (orig. 1956) Read this for the third time, and just like a Barry Jenkins film, it gets better and I learn more with each exposure. David is an upper-middle white American, who got a slap on the wrists after crashing a car drunk with friends and escaping with minor injuries. He has a history of having affairs with other young men before estranging himself as soon as he feels anything. He is, of course, straight, and engaged to an American woman called Hella he hasn’t even introduced to his father. She’s in Spain bumming around while he’s “finding himself” in Paris. He falls in love with a bartender called Giovanni, with whom he shares the eponymous maid’s room. They fall in love, and the depressive Giovanni expects he has found someone to spend the rest of his life with, but then Hella decides she’ll be joining David in Paris... Just wonderful from the first paragraph, where it is always startling, to me as a black reader of a black male writer, that Baldwin, writing in first person, sees his reflection in the mirror as tall, blond and athletic, all the things Baldwin was not. Of course, it is easier for a black writer to step into the life of a white character, than it is the other way round, because white people are not sold blackness from birth. The perfect introduction to Baldwin’s fiction, for those who have never read him before, and at 150 pages (albeit in minuscule type for the Penguin Great Loves series), a quick enough read to be an annual treat, though be sure to take your time over those sentences. #jamesbaldwin #100booksfor2019 #100booksinayear #100bookschallenge (at Hampstead Heath City of London) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuMXN69l_3P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=193q3ad9m7qou