pick“After the official memos and speeches are forgotten, the history books ignored, and the powerful are dust, art remains.” | Viet Thanh Nguyen pens a powerful and poignant critique of how we remember war.
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War | 
pick“After the official memos and speeches are forgotten, the history books ignored, and the powerful are dust, art remains.” | Viet Thanh Nguyen pens a powerful and poignant critique of how we remember war.
My TBR pile...some books are new, others have been stacked here for awhile #nonfictionchallenge17
The Sympathizer is Monday's book club read. I'm hoping to fit in a reread of that and at least start the non-fiction by the same author.
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pickThis was a good combination (book club was The Sympathizer and I read the other afterwards.) Nguyen examines the war machine, the power of memory, and how to forget.
Nguyen's non-fiction examination of the Vietnam War uses words as well as his novel The Sympathizer
Weekend TBR: I managed to acquire all these this week (mail, family, library holds) despite a full work week! Aloha Friday 🌺🌅
"Total memory is neither possible nor practical, for something is always forgotten...In this desert, memory is as important as water, for memory is a strategic resource in the struggle for power." I'm just in the opening pages but w/James Young+Maurice Halbwachs I feel right back in grad school. ?
