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Another ‘The Housemaid"

Revisado: 09-07-24

Is this a trend? A woman moves in with a family, and the whole story becomes predictable.

Again.

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Super

Revisado: 09-03-24

I will recommend widely. This is a valuable resource for understanding history and politics. Not only has empire been hidden but also truth

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Maybe His Best

Revisado: 08-11-24

This is a brilliant book. The only flaw (my perception, anyway) is that I have not heard Black folks talk that way, even in the South.

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Generational

Revisado: 03-25-24

I was moved. Still it was dishonoring to reflect on originators like the great George Carlin and skip people like Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby.

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I Am of a Certain Age

Revisado: 09-01-23

I love to recommend books but I can't figure out who else would appreciate this. The phenomena covered may be gone forever, I can't say. I would love to share it with my adult kids but with what historical frame of reference? I became quite aware of, not Terrell, but similar tent revivalists of the era.

African Americans may have mixed feelings. I applaud Terell and Co. for standing up to the KKK, but there's no mention of how the public swimming pool would not have allowed Black kids. The author seems to lionize antiracist aspects, but this was a period when there was such extreme violence against Blacks for the most innocuous of reasons that to reduce them can make the reader overlook the insidiousness of today's white supremacy.

We must bear in mind that Pentecostals/ Assemblies of God/Evangelicals are the conservators of race-hate today, and while the author seems to have evolved, there remains a vestige of the normalization of MAGA. It remains unchallenged, and therefore, it is left benign.

Still, it was an entertaining read, almost like a novel.

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Alarming Material, Clunky Narration

Revisado: 05-12-23

The narration makes it harder to process than it needs to be. I am still glad I listened. This is on the level of "important reading" and "everyone should read this book."

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Not Just for Mormons

Revisado: 09-10-22

I am recommending this book to my friends who come from fundamentalist Christian families. Their psychic torment, in some cases, is saddening.

I just discovered Martha Beck a month ago, and this is the 3rd book of hers that I've listened to. I feel like we are part of each other.

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Everything

Revisado: 08-22-22

"The Trouble with White Women" feels like the creation of either an attorney or a painter, I can't decide. It's literary art. It's the rare book I could not just browse or be satisfied with portions. I don't typically read snatches from books, but often in retrospect, I can recognize the most salient sections, sort of like highlighting.

This is a "cover-to-cover" affair. Every paragraph builds a chapter that leads to the next, and then finally, the epilogue.

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Trevor Noah’s Was the Last Memoir this Enjoyable

Revisado: 03-05-22

I never thought it possible that Will Smith could surpass his musical and theatrical exploits as an author. There is so much wisdom here that it's mind-bending. I had always seen Will as something of a jester, even with his catalog of serious drama. In "Will," I found a polymath and a sage.

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I read it in 3 nights

Revisado: 10-23-21

I'd start sometime between dinner and bedtime and couldn't stop until done. It is Louise Penny at her very best, plus the knowledge and experience of a Secretary of State in Hillary Clinton. The narration even sounds a bit like Clinton.

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