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Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNERHEARTLAND AWARD WINNERDAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"The New York Times USA Today O: The Oprah Magazine Amazon Publishers Weekly Salon Newsday The Daily Beast"""NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"The New Yorker The Washington Post The Economist Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle ChicagoTribune EntertainmentWeekly Philadelphia Inquirer The Guardian The Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Christian Science Monitor"From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an unrecognized immigration within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic."
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behudd
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Bailedbailed

DNF

Really disappointed to not be finishing this book but its epic scope & length is just not something my brain is taking in right now.
I can tell it‘s very well researched & written, and Robin Miles is an excellent narrator, so it‘s not the book, it‘s me.

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 2d
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“The night clouds were closing in on the salt licks east of the oxbow lakes along the folds in the earth beyond the Yalobusha River.”

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

ShyBookOwl Oh this is on my tbr. How is it? 6d
behudd @ShyBookOwl I‘m not very far, but I definitely find it engaging. It‘s narrative nonfiction, so more story telling than textbook, which I tend to prefer. From what I‘ve read, I‘d recommend it! 6d
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AmyK1
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“Most of them care nothing whatever about race. They want only their proper place in the sun and the right to be left alone, like any other citizen of the republic.” -James Baldwin

I read this for #sharonsayso‘s book club and loved it. It‘s a well researched history of the Great Migration (1915-1970), when Black people escaped the injustice, degradation, and racism of the Jim Crow south by going north and west. Often to be faced with more ⬇️

AmyK1 racism and discrimination once there. I loved that she followed 3 different people and their families while tying everything together into the broader scope of the Migration and it‘s affects on the country. 3w
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PaperbackPirate
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Finished in September but I read it for a big chunk of August so I‘m counting it here!

✅ Black history
✅ biography
✅ US history

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PaperbackPirate
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I finished this epic history/biography about the Great Migration, the period of time between 1910-1970 when Black people escaped the south to get away from Jim Crow laws only to be welcomed in the north & west with more racism.
I love how the author chose 3 delightful people who migrated & fully shared their stories while tying it into a broader scope of American history. I‘m grieving not being able to read about them anymore.
#SummerEndReadathon

PaperbackPirate ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 7mo
TheSpineView Well done! 7mo
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PaperbackPirate
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I‘m always late to wrap up!
My #20in4 Readathon goal was to read 120 pages.
I came so close! (102)
I wanted to finish in time for book club Friday but didn‘t. At least I got close enough that I could still contribute to the discussion so…
Thank you @Andrew65 !

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏🙌🎉🍾🥂 Thanks for playing along. 7mo
PaperbackPirate Thank you @Andrew65 ! 🙌📚 6mo
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LaurenAsh
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August round-up of completed reads: I inadvertently made it a month of women authors...love that! The tagged book was my personal pick.

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PaperbackPirate
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So far I‘ve read 56/120 pages toward my #20in4 Readathon goal. I need to finish by Friday for book club (271 pages to go)!

I just noticed when I posted this picture it says at the top, “…an absolute delight to read.” I must not have gotten to the delightful part yet! 😅 Though I would say it‘s definitely “profound” & “necessary.”

I‘ve also read 11 pages from Beyond the Hundredth Meridian- it‘s my “purse book” since my other book is 600 pages.

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PaperbackPirate
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I‘m joining a day late but the #20in4 Readathon but it‘s just what I need!

My goal is to read 120 pages of The Warmth of Other Suns. It‘s a slow but thoughtful read.

Thank you for hosting @Andrew65 !

Andrew65 Best of luck, great to have you with us whenever you join. 😁 7mo
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It was the other side of the world from the wide-open, quiet land of the cotton fields. Ida Mae saw things she never imagined, bridges that lifted into the air to let ships pass through, traffic lights and streetlamps…

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#WondrousWednesday
📚Happy National Book Lovers Day @Eggs !
📚 Thank you for the tag @Ann_Reads !
#NationalBookLoversDay

Eggs To you as well 🥳📚🤗 8mo
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PaperbackPirate
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Currently reading this (tagged) thick one.
It‘s vg so far.

Happy National Book Lovers Day!

📸 Taken at op.cit. books on a recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

#NationalBookLoversDay

Ruthiella Me too Andrea! 😂❤️📚 8mo
charl08 Love this! 8mo
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LaurenAsh
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Beach vacation book #1

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staci.reads
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I added this to my stacks a long time ago after reading Caste with the #SheReads group. It finally popped up for my May #Doublespin, so I've been slowly working my way through it. It's beautifully done and gave me a new and broadened perspective on a little-known historical event that drastically affected the make-up of our nation. Highly recommend! @TheAromaofBooks

Kristin_Reads Just picked up my copy again this morning! It is a chunkster, but so good! (edited) 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 10mo
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TheBookHippie
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mcctrish It sure is! What a great deal too 10mo
willaful Oh, this was fantastic. Almost like a novel, it was so compelling. 10mo
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brushlo
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best read of 2023 so far. should be required reading in high school. it connects the dots between the past oppression and subjugation of blacks in america and so much of our current situation. i loved the way the story was told through the lives of the migrants. check it out!

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Eggs Perfect 🤩 14mo
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AmyK1
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My library sale #bookhaul!

wanderinglynn Great haul! 14mo
Clwojick Library book sales are the best! You found some gems 💎 14mo
Gissy Lucky you!📚📚📚🙌 14mo
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vlwelser
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This book is lovely. But I highly recommend reading it in bits. Because it's repetitive. Like as if the chapters are meant to stand alone.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1y
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vlwelser
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Today's plan + the tote I received in the book club gift exchange. 💛

Blaire That is one of my favorite books of at least the last decade 1y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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5 ⭐
Warmth of Other Suns - Wilkerson
4.5⭐
Fresh Water for Flowers - Perrin
Galaxy and the Ground Within - Chambers
4⭐
Little - Carey
Paradise - Morrison
Elatsoe - Little Bader
Me (Moth) - McBride
Stay With Me - Adébáyọ̀
Devil Takes You Home - Iglesias
The Way We Never Were - Coontz
Swimming Home - Levy
3⭐
Girl from the Sea - Ostertag
Seven Days In June - Williams
Tales of the City - Maupin
Nine Perfect Strangers - Moriarty
Birnam Wood - Catton

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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5⭐
You can tell by my tabs I got so much information out of this book. But what I loved the most is the weaving of the history and analysis of the Migration with the biographies of 3 people who were involved (all three migrated from the south to different areas of the US) this made the book a much lighter and more engrossing read.
One of those books all Americans should read.

Kristin_Reads I‘m halfway through this and it‘s incredible. 1y
ChaoticMissAdventures @Kristin_Reads I was so intimidated by it, it has sat on my shelf for years, but it was nothing like I had imagined. So personable and easy to read. 1y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Big plans for this week! Trying to wrap up a bunch of books I started this year before the New Year. I have Fear of Flying, Trust Exercise, and Elatsoe on audio to speed things along.

rockpools It‘s a good plan! 1y
Cinfhen Happy Reading 🧡 1y
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Excellent book that I highly recommend.
The author, through personal accounts of black people moving from Jim Crow's south to the north, gives a factual account of this phenomenon that lasted several decades.
Informative and well-written, this book is also moving, sometimes hard to read because of its content, but so essential.

TheBookHippie I agree such a powerful read. 1y
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"Still it made no sense to Pershing that one set of people could be in a cage, and the people outside couldn't see the bars."

Such an excellent description of how racism and the people who allow it to continue.
#nonfictionNovember

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Last few days of nonfiction November!
#readinggoals #weeklyforecast

I have been taking the tagged bit by bit and hope to finish this week. Also about half through Are Prisons Obsolete, and Souls of Black Folk those should be done by end of month. I picked up the audio for Wild Swans to finish #nonfictionNovember strong(ish) I didn't get as much as I wanted read, but got a few off my old #tbr

Chelsea.Poole Lovely little scene 😊 1y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Nonfiction November continues. I have been a bit unmotivated this year. I randomly started rewatching White Collar reruns and can't seem to want to turn that off. But have a long weekend coming up so hoping to make a dent in these, and throwing a fun fiction book into the mix.

All of these are incredibly interesting I have just apparently hit a slump. Getting Beautiful Forevers and the Feynman one on audio to help move along

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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"times were the best they had ever been, which said more about how meager the past had been than how great the present was."

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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"Was it a braver thing to stay, or was it a a braver thing to go?"

"It was the first big step the nation's servant class ever took without asking."

I was intimidated by this book but the first chapters are very easy to read and absorb.

SamAnne I loved this book. I learned so much more history and I appreciated her telling the history through three individuals and sharing her own stories as well. So powerful. 1y
ChaoticMissAdventures @SamAnne yes! It is a great layout and the stories make it so much easier to read then a dry disconnected academic book only focused on numbers. 1y
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CMaybin
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This book was an amazing and educational story. That should be read by all. Don‘t let the fact that it is a work of non fiction put you off.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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melissajayne The Warmth of Warmer Suns is excellent 1y
ChaoticMissAdventures @melissajayne it has been on my shelf for literal years, I have been intimidated by it, but this is the time! 1y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1y
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Cinfhen
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An amazing work of history and storytelling 🙌🏻 Warmth will definitely be on my top reads for 2022.
I did print/ audio combo and both mediums were fantastic.Looking forward to discussing with my IRL bookclub 🤓

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Cinfhen
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This book is fantastic but my two weeks away from the book has left me forgetting a bunch of relevant information. I feel like I need a little refresher course. #IRLbookclub

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Cinfhen
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Getting a jump start on my #IRL #BookClub October read - So far it‘s fantastic and the audio narration is outstanding 🙌🏻🎧

MallenNC This book is excellent! I‘ve read it twice. 2y
AnneCecilie I loved this one 2y
Cinfhen It really is an amazing piece of history and storytelling @MallenNC @AnneCecilie it will definitely be on my top reads list!!! 2y
Centique I‘d put it on my TBR but it‘s so good to hear that it is such a good reading experience. Will have to move it up! 2y
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swynn
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr
Checkmate in Berlin by Giles Milton
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente

#Littenswanttoknow

Thanks for the tag @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm !

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing!! 📚 2y
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Even though I didn't do great this month, continuing on with trying to get that old backlog down.
#bookspin list with @thearomaofbooks

LeslieO The struggle is real! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2y
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Bevita
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Amazing, unforgettable, awful, how come they didn‘t teach us ANY of this? She‘s a magnificent author, makes me like nonfiction. Couldn‘t put it down

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DMC_run8
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Very well researched book about the migration of African Americans from the south during the Jim Crow period. The book follows three people who make their way out of the south and end up in Chicago, NYC, and LA each in a different decade. 5⭐️

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BacklistReader
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This was a great one to pick up. We read this for my family book club and we all learned a ton. Definitely recommend this one.

Nonfiction that doesn‘t read like a text book is always a plus for me.

#nonfiction #thewarmthofothersuns #isabelwilkerson #bookreview

Leftcoastzen She‘s s wonderful writer .Such a great book! 2y
BacklistReader @Leftcoastzen it really was good. I‘m looking forward to picking up more by her 2y
Leftcoastzen Caste was great too! 2y
BacklistReader @Leftcoastzen that‘s definitely good to know. 2y
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BacklistReader
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January wrap up and currently reading

#wrapup #currentlyreading #januarywrapup

slategreyskies Just a quick note to let you know that I love your screen name! It makes me smile every time I see it. :) 2y
paperwitchs These books look greattt 2y
BacklistReader @paperwitchs they are really good. I highly recommend the mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs (it‘s my favorite). 2y
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swynn
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(2010) This is the January pick for my RL book club, and y'all, it's f***ing brilliant. (Not sure I can say that at Book Club, but it's true.) It's the story of the "great migration" of black citizens from southern states northward during the early twentieth century and into the 1970's. It's an enlightening history interwoven with moving personal stories of three people who made the move. Fascinating, affecting, enthusiastically recommended.

Graywacke Agree, especially with your asterisk-ed comment. 2y
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The night clouds were closing in on the salt licks east of the oxbow lakes along the folds in the earth beyond the Yalobusha River.

#FirstLineFridays
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Butterfinger
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A strong sociological study of the Great Migration. Statistics and historical facts revolve around three figures who escaped the South in order to be free. To become American citizens. I'm so grateful to have read this book. #OtherSuns @megnews

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AnneCecilie
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This book thought me so much. I had no idea that there had been an internal migration in the US from the South to the North and the West starting during WWI and until the 60s.

Wilkerson chooses to focus on three people; Ida Mae Brandon Gladney leaving in 1937, George Swanson Starling leaving in 1945 and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster leaving in 1953. Each represents their own decade for leaving and their receiving city. I loved reading about

AnneCecilie their lives and expectations. I‘m so glad you organized this buddy read @megnews so I got to this book sooner rather than later. 2y
megnews Thank you! Sorry I‘ve gotten behind here at the end. Still making slow progress. Defy plan to finish as it‘s excellent. 2y
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#BookReport.

I appreciated this book on the Great Migration and wished the facts presented were more common. I‘m so grateful for the continued opportunity to learn and then share these truths. 5 🌟 Seven Days was not bad 3.5 🌟

The Winterson‘s is a reread one story a day. In the Midst of Winter is kind of meh and I might bail but have less than 3 hours. Halfway through Nantucket and will finish The Twelve Fates today.

Cinfhen I‘m reading Warmth with my IRL bookclub later in 2022! I‘m looking forward- I bailed on the Allende when it first came out, i found it boring. 2y
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I saw a few reviews go up this week. I‘ve read a little but still behind. Still, I wanted to post for the rest of the group. Anymore new insights? What really stood out in this section?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa How are you doing, making any progress. I was behind forever and then when I got back into it I just went the rest of the way through. Maybe try switching to the audiobook or ebook depending on what you are using now. 2y
megnews @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m in the Disillusionment section. I looked at 8 library systems and hoopla for the audio so I could listen on my trip and could not find one. I had already bought the ebook and didn‘t want to pay for the audio too right now. I‘m slowly making my way through. This is what happens to me with long books (even fiction) even when I love them. I seem to get bogged down in the length. I really hoped leading the discussion 👇🏻 2y
megnews 👆🏻would motivate me but even though I really love the writing style and the stories, it happened again! I‘m going to keep pushing my way through but at this point I won‘t finish in time. It‘s also been difficult because my mom developed a blood clot after knee surgery and has now been emergency with bad nose bleeds from the blood thinners. My oldest daughter is having a rough time with her Bipolar. So I‘ve been sticking with mindless 👇🏻 2y
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megnews 👆🏻Christmas stories mainly in audio. 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I completely understand that, real life has been complicated for me lately too and I still haven‘t finished Vanguard from SheSaid yet. I‘m glad you are doing ok though, even with all the other stressors around at the moment. You‘ll get there when you get there, so just read what works for you at the moment. 2y
Butterfinger Oh Megan, if there is anything I can do, just let me know. I just finished. 2y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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Worth five solid and fascinating stars. Wilkerson follows three people who leave the South and chase a brighter day. She tells about their dreams, many of which don‘t come to fruition the way the dreamer hoped. The migrants land in Chicago, NYC, and Los Angeles. So Wilkerson discusses life in all those areas during the turbulence of the 20th century. Highly recommend!

Full review https://www.TheBibliophage.com #thebibliophage2021 #OtherSuns

Prairiegirl_reading I loved the way this was set up. I honestly wasn‘t expecting it to be what it was. I loved it too! 2y
Graywacke One of my favorite books. 2y
Amiable Such a phenomenal read. 2y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage @Prairiegirl_reading I agree. So much heart in the midst of all the historical information. Lot of heartbreak also. 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Graywacke Yes! And she is an automatic buy author for me from now on. 2y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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I loved this nonfiction book that examines the Great migration from the South to the North and West of large swaths of African Americans starting in WWI. Wilkerson does a great job here of telling the larger story of terror, upheaval, change, and culture shock by interviewing and telling the personal stories of 3 migrants and their families…looking to escape racism and lynchings and get a new start in under warmer (and hopefully pleasanter) suns.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sorry @megnews I got on a roll and just finished it. #OtherSuns 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @TheAromaofBooks This was my #DoubleBookSpin from May 😳, but I finally read it 🤪 2y
megnews It happens! I‘ve enjoyed the discussions. Glad you liked it. I really like your graphic. 2y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @megnews Stock background images in Vanillapen, it seemed like the right one to pick to me. 😉 2y
Tamra I keep meaning to read this one! 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Tamra I think you‘d really like it, she tells the larger history… but the majority of the book is the retelling of 3 peoples lives, in their own words….what they saw, why they left, what happened when they arrived, etc, etc. it makes it all the more personal and relatable. I found myself so grateful she was able to do intensive interviews with people from this generation before they are all gone. Their personal stories makes history come alive 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Tamra ↪️ and as she follows their lives and stories she gives the larger backdrop and history…making the connections that show why these stories are so important and typical of the time. 2y
Tamra @Riveted_Reader_Melissa sounds fabulous! 2y
Amiable Such a phenomenal book! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Great work getting this one checked off!!! 2y
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I have to apologize to everyone because as much as I enjoy this book when I‘m reading it, I just haven‘t picked it up much recently with other things grabbing my attention. I am woefully behind. I wanted to get the audio from my drive to NC Tuesday but can‘t find it. I‘m going to keep trying to read but I can‘t imagine staying on schedule. I still want to post for those who are keeping up. What have you learned? What would you like to share?

MallenNC I was really behind but finally caught up this week. I have read this before so I was definitely getting drawn toward other books. I am getting a lot from rereading because it‘s been a few years since I first read it. The section I just finished made me sad bc the “main characters” are getting older and it‘s hard not to think of the “what if‘s” of their lives had racism not changed their paths. Especially George. (edited) 2y
MallenNC Also in this section was Dr. King‘s efforts to reform housing discrimination in Chicago. I didn‘t know much about it before this book. 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I finally caught up tonight! But I very much understand your struggle….November was a tough reading month for me. So take your time and you‘ll get there when you get there @megnews 2y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC I found that really interesting too, I knew he had tried to start The Poor People campaign before he passed, basically uniting those living in poverty together…his children still do work on this front with his foundation. But reading this really made an impact of the Chicago atmosphere at the time. Have you seen the The Trial of the Chicago 6 movie or Judas and the Black Messiah both historical and set in Chicago overlapping the same⤵️ 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ time period and so very good at painting the corruption and racism in the officials of Chicago. I recommend them both if you haven‘t. (edited) 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC The “what if‘s” kill me, especially with George, so much potential to basically a porter. So sad….then there is Robert at the other end… that struggled, but got too big and forgot to help others (at least to me). He could have done so much uplifting others. But he did get out, and got to live his Hollywood dream….so good for him….but I personally see wasted potential there too. 🤷‍♀️ 2y
megnews @MallenNC @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I can‘t recall hearing about MLK‘s work in Chicago. Looking forward to reading that. I‘ve not seen those movies either. Will check it out. I definitely want to see how all three of their lives turn out. I will keep trying to get through. 2y
Butterfinger @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC @megnews the section on neighborhoods being emptied by white families hit me in the gut. It brought up guilt because I think my grandparents did that. I was way too young to know why they moved, but I remember remarks. Before this book, I really thought discrimination and segregation and Jim Crow was only in the south. It was everywhere. The New York bar, the housing in Chicago. The "receiving towns" still have division lines. Learned so much. 2y
Butterfinger Excuse my errors. Intense emotions and trying to get all my thoughts down. I also was sad with George's what-ifs. He worked so hard to get to a place where his children could get an education. Children can make you so mad when they don't have your ambition. I really empathized with him on that score. And I hated Robert's pretentious party. What was he trying to prove? Especially to those in Monroe and to his nephew. Don't worry Megan. I feel like I stay behind. 2y
megnews @Butterfinger after my maternal grandfather‘s mom died he grew up between Cleveland with his dad & NC with his dad‘s parents. Met my gran in Marion and they married in ‘47 and moved back to Cleveland, specifically the Hough neighborhood. My mom was born in ‘57 and the “neighborhood was changing.” Along with most other white families they moved by ‘62. The Hough riots took place in ‘66. I was in my 30s by the time I understand my grandparents 👇🏻 2y
megnews 👆🏻were part of the “white flight” from the city to the suburbs. It sucks. 2y
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TBR for #wintergames2021 #teamgamesleighers
The pictured, plus The Stupidest Angel (re-read on audio), The Warmth of Other Suns (already started but twice as long as most books so I figure it counts), A Highlander's Christmas Kiss (couldn't resist a holiday bodice ripper), Merry and Bright (cheesy holiday romance), and Long Road to Mercy (recently started). Holiday beer to accompany. Let the games begin!