pickAnother Grandin W 🤑 My interest in Herman Melville & admiration for Grandin dovetail in “The Empire of Necessity”, in which Grandin takes the real slave uprising that inspired Melville‘s “Benito Cereno” as a jumping off point for a grand history of slavery in the Americas, and especially Spanish America. Magisterial.
pickWe all know the story about the slave trade, but what if it had been different? What if Africans had discovered the New World and forced Europeans into slavery? This is that story. Doris is playing hide and seek with her sisters when she‘s kidnapped and taking to this new country. All she can think about is returning to her family back in England.
#DoubleSpin July @TheAromaofBooks
#2008 #192025 @Librarybelle
Their feet were clad too, in objects called boots which were made of animal hide. They rode tightly up the leg to the knee, for some unfathomable reason.
Some, though, wore the foot objects called shoes, made of either animal hide or even stranger - wood. What crazed mind conjured up that idea?
so-soThis book started off really good, but dragged in the middle and the ending was just sort of meh. I think it‘s a fascinating concept and is a great example of what if and the general rule that all humans are evil.
In a world where Africa is the continent of advanced technology and the slave trade is reversed, follow the life of a slave girl from England.
2/5 stars parts are really well written and engaging, but a lot of the book is very slow.
pickYA short novel about Tacky's Revolt, a slave uprising on the island of Jamaica, against the British plantation owners in the 1760s. A very important book, excellently portrayed through the eyes of 14 yr old sugar cane slave, turned warrior, Moa. It's brutal, it's thought provoking and, with its dialect, not easy to read but I can see it making its way onto school curriculums and as class reads very soon.
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
❄️Good enough weather to walk around my area, go for open air concerts!
☃️All I want for christmas is coming to the same person 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️. Though all I want for Christmas is spending time with my husband,so maybe it's appropriate!
❄️The tagged book!I listened to a podcast about it and it sounds incredibly interesting
Love this prompt!
1.Tagged book, absolutely fascinating look at history
2.Burning Man by Frances Wilson
3.Tenderness by Alison McLeod( bit obsessed with Dh Lawrence right now)
4.Memories by Teffi
5.The story of a life konstantin paustovsky
We're back with our favorite anti-hero, Harry Flashman. But first, Matt has an important life update about spiders and hedge apples. Once we finish discussing the spiders living below Matt's house, we dive into a rather interesting entry in the Flashman papers. Hope you enjoy the episode and pick up a Flashman book!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Nnr2Xyg1Ea8ITMqfDDRIW
pickJust posted our latest episode in our ongoing Flashman series: Flash for Freedom!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Nnr2Xyg1Ea8ITMqfDDRIW?si=umz6CA6ZSyaevbmotzD7p...
