Book Lovers Thread

Happy National Book Lovers Day

Saw this while I was searching on Google

https://bookshop.org/

 

Does anyone watch BOOKTV on C-SPAN2 that comes on every Sunday?

 

Sometimes l do. I was part of Q&A to the author of the Wilmington Race Riot. He later won a Pulitzer.

 

Happy National Read a Book Day

I need to start reading again

 

I recommend Thomas Sowell books

 

I'll look into it. Thanks

 

Thought all the book lovers would like this

https://funnyeditor.com/post/where-...US&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FE-_herojoke

 

I have a kindle Oasis if anyone is interested. I thought I lost mine, purchased a new one, then found the old one.

 

How much?

 

Nothing, I'll ship it to you. I'm excited because I have offered it to everyone, family, friends, coworkers, etc No one wants it even though it cost $300 and its only a year old. I realize this is the internet and you don't know me so if you can figure out a way for me to send it discreetly, im good with that.

 

Currently reading this trilogy

 

I have a question for the Book Lovers, would you ever buy a book from an author you don't like? I have thought about not getting one, but I heard from years ago saying "If you want to keep something from a Black Person, put it in a book." What are your thoughts?

 

Goddamn, that's evil lol. I can't say that I've ever heard that one before. As for the question, it depends on why I don't like the author. In general, if I don't like the author because I don't think what they write is credible or factual, then I don't touch it with a ten-foot pole. If it's an author that writes primarily in a genre I don't read, I'd consider buying the book if the story turned out to be something that I was interested in.

 

If you read books no matter what genre then you should be reading because you actually enjoy reading (thereby learning & expanding your views/thoughts/imagination in the process). IMO if you read & don't actually enjoy reading you don't actually gain or learn anything of value because you aren't engaged in the process of reading/learning to begin with.

I've heard the "If you want to keep something from a Black Person, put it on a book" saying growing up usually said to highlight when Black folks were being willfully ignorant by not finding out something (usually historical facts) by picking up a book (non public school level) to get information.

 

Reading give me a chance to experience many different lives without the work involved.
I have probably post this in the past, but my most highlighted and notated book is still Soul of the Butterfly by Muhammad Ali. I recommend it to anyone who will listen.

 

I am officially a dork. Last night laying in bed, reading a book, holding it over my face, and I drop it. This morning, nose swollen eyes black.

Reading should not be a contact sport.

 

My next read. Segregated Sky’s about the first black airline pilot.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1080...x5NXnhGgXazxaVocglfl_GA4rSN5rzai19m5M0E7T6ywU

 

I wouldn't buy it, but if it sounds interesting and maybe someone I know said it was good, I'd get it from the library. I'm not wasting money on an author I don't know.

 

I would find a pdf pirated version of their book, I've done that before and read it on my kindle looool

And that saying - "If you want to keep something from a Black Person, put it in a book." - is claiming that black people hate to read, it's a Pro-black message allegedly claiming black people aren't educated and don't plan to be and explains why they still struggle (Even though it's a multifaceted set of reasons if we want to get political in here) .
When the truth is wealth and class correlate with a person's academic interests, that's the case for any ethnicity from a poorer background, books are the least prioritized in these communities.

Another saying is- "The most dangerous black man is an educated black man".