Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Tuesday this and that

 I've spent the last couple of months reading almost solely books delving into black America, from Deacon King Kong (McBride), to the essays of Jerald Walker How to Make a Slave, Transcendent Kingdom (Gyasi)The Vanishing Half (Bennett) , Real Life  (Brandon Taylor), Jack (Robinson) some James Baldwin.  This wasn't even entirely intentional and all are recommended. There are just some excellent books on this theme that have recently been published and they've cropped up and somehow it has just felt right to be reading these authors delving into complicated subject matter in such different ways at this time.

.But suddenly I seem to be turning to Chinese Americans as two books have popped up on my reserve list.  I'm currently reading "My Year Abroad" by Chang-rae Lee, which is seeming promising about a Chinese American college student's foray into a perhaps unsavory adventure abroad, with a sketchy but brilliant co-conspirator.  And sitting in front of me waiting to be read is Charles Yu's "Interior Chinatown" which was a PBS NewsHour monthly selection. Seems very strange that these two should have hit my shelf together.  I'll let you know.  Interior Chinatown won the 2020 National Book Award. Our catalog says One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." --The Washington Post  From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

And now for something completely different...we have been getting some good eating from the greenhouse, though the temperature fluctuations have been giving my husband fits.  It is March in NH after all, but the greenhouse has added a new dimension.  the greens are absolutely delicious and radishes and carrots are coming up!!  



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