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My February #BookSpinBingo reading plan. The tagged book is the first of my #Roll100 picks.
1 - 10 are #buddyreads

@TheAromaofBooks

⭐️⭐️⭐️ I‘m torn on this one. The author highlights important areas where boys lag behind girls (rates of maturation, educational attainment) and ways particularly Black boys experience discrimination and the structural issues they face in school and society. He‘s careful to make clear he does not want to improve outcomes for boys and men at the expense of women. He loses me when talking about how now that women don‘t “need” men, ⬇️

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#bookspinbingo

Cute and funny story to show how kids exaggerate and how parents can tell

“I cannot go to school today, said little Peggy Ann McKay, i have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash, and purple bumps.”

This poem tells a funy tale of a child claiming to be sick and cannot go to school. The child lists a funny list of symptoms as reasons of not going to school

Of Boys and Men is included on Obama‘s summer reading list. I snagged this audiobook immediately, as it was new to me and I‘m over here trying to raise a couple of boys. At 7 hrs, it‘s a doable look at how men and boys are caught between two narratives: “the problem” or ignored by the left and toxic culture/manly man weirdness of the right. It‘s political but also focuses on policies that could help-like red shirting boys in kindergarten.

This book might be nine years old. But we know that the numbers and general trend line of poverty has not changed significantly since then. In fact, I wonder what the Dobbs ruling has done to exacerbate many of the issues outlines in this book.

A sad book. Informative, yes, but the human stories are what make the facts and figures and stats stand out as more than just numbers on a page. It‘s also sad that this issue has only gotten worse after the pandemic.