A new year and a new book list! I didn't name a theme for this book list, but I was considering naming it "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." If you are interested in attending any of the discussions, please note that we meet the last Wednesday of each month, from 8:30-10:00 a.m. at the San Clemente Library. If you would like to reserve a copy, please call the library at (949)492-3493
January 30th: Deer Hunting with Jesus- Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant
February 27th: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
March 26th: Life Studies- Stories of Art by Suzanne Vreeland
April 30th: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
May 28th: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
June 25th: One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life by Bliss Broyard
Are you looking to get inspired beyond the reading list? Maybe your new year's resolution is to read more! Check out lifehack's ideas on how to consume more books this year. Busy schedule? Long commute? Check out OCPL's eaudiobooks- new titles are added each week. Some titles can be transferred to mp3 players- burned to cds- each title has different rights negotiated.
January 30th: Deer Hunting with Jesus- Dispatches from America's Class War
by Joe Bageant
February 27th: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
March 26th: Life Studies- Stories of Art by Suzanne Vreeland
April 30th: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
May 28th: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
June 25th: One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life by Bliss Broyard
Are you looking to get inspired beyond the reading list? Maybe your new year's resolution is to read more! Check out lifehack's ideas on how to consume more books this year. Busy schedule? Long commute? Check out OCPL's eaudiobooks- new titles are added each week. Some titles can be transferred to mp3 players- burned to cds- each title has different rights negotiated.
1 comment:
Bliss Broyard is a white woman (as opposed to the myth of just looking like one). Her father, Anatole Broyard, was a white man, although "tarbrushed."
Everyone wants to be part Indian precisely because Indians do not try to claim everyone who has "Indian blood." Hypodescent yields contempt. Unfortunately, elite American blacks like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (the one who first denounced Anatole Broyard as a lighter kind of "black" too inferior for the honor of calling himself white) actively mislead people of good will by promoting and demanding obedience to the lie that whites "tainted" with Negro blood have no right to be "white." If that were true, Hispanics and Arabs would be "black" since nearly all of them have some "black blood."
Read Legal History of the Color Line by Frank W. Sweet or "Passing" for Who You Truly Are by A.D. Powell.
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