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One of the things I find the most useful and awesome about reading people's journals is reading their book logs. I am not a big fan of goodreads and I don't find amazon reviews to be helpful in general. I like to know what people I know think about books. and I was thinking maybe I'd go back to posting my own book log a bit more regularly. Prepare yourself.
For now, the last few books I've read:
( Whipping Girl by Julia Serano )
Instead of jumping right to the next Serano book, I took a break and read ( Living Nonviolent Communication )
(Then I spent two weeks reading Captain America/Winter Soldier fanfic. My favorites so far are this fic in which Bucky is actually a member of the Communist Party and challenges Tony on capitalism and politics, and also this fic, which I linked on Twitter, which is about Steve making a YouTube video about braiding Bucky's hair.)
And now, today, I am once again on an Amtrak train headed to NYC -- this time to visit my nine-month-old nephew and eat some NY pizza. The train was late and we sat at the station for a while, so I sobbed my way through Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich by Joanne D. Gilbert -- basically it is transcribed oral history of four 90-something Jewish women who fought the Nazis during WWII. On the ground. In Poland/Russia/Germany/Hungary. Good thing I got a seat by myself. I didn't bring tissues so I am wiping up my tears with my plaid pajama pants. This is exactly the book I longed to read when I was an nine-year-old kid in the basement of my shul reading my way through the shul's Jewish history library. Not Gentiles being heroic and saving the Jews, but Jewish people fighting to save themselves, organizing factions of resistance, smuggling people out of ghettoes and death camps -- totally recommended.
Although... I mean, obviously the shoah was awful and horrific, but every time a historian remarks that it was "unprecedented" or "unimaginable" I'm kind of like... did no one else learn about what happens when settlers colonize land? Like, okay, no, the settlers colonizing the USA did not consider it a "world war" but they basically did the same thing to the Native Americans that was done to the Jews (and others, yes, I know) during WWII. Like... on purpose. Genocide is not a new thing. Systemized genocide is not a new thing. I think some of these historians are not very good at their job.
Signed,
4 shots of espresso this morning was not enough and now that I'm done crying I will be reading some more fanfic about Bucky Barnes, thanks
For now, the last few books I've read:
( Whipping Girl by Julia Serano )
Instead of jumping right to the next Serano book, I took a break and read ( Living Nonviolent Communication )
(Then I spent two weeks reading Captain America/Winter Soldier fanfic. My favorites so far are this fic in which Bucky is actually a member of the Communist Party and challenges Tony on capitalism and politics, and also this fic, which I linked on Twitter, which is about Steve making a YouTube video about braiding Bucky's hair.)
And now, today, I am once again on an Amtrak train headed to NYC -- this time to visit my nine-month-old nephew and eat some NY pizza. The train was late and we sat at the station for a while, so I sobbed my way through Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich by Joanne D. Gilbert -- basically it is transcribed oral history of four 90-something Jewish women who fought the Nazis during WWII. On the ground. In Poland/Russia/Germany/Hungary. Good thing I got a seat by myself. I didn't bring tissues so I am wiping up my tears with my plaid pajama pants. This is exactly the book I longed to read when I was an nine-year-old kid in the basement of my shul reading my way through the shul's Jewish history library. Not Gentiles being heroic and saving the Jews, but Jewish people fighting to save themselves, organizing factions of resistance, smuggling people out of ghettoes and death camps -- totally recommended.
Although... I mean, obviously the shoah was awful and horrific, but every time a historian remarks that it was "unprecedented" or "unimaginable" I'm kind of like... did no one else learn about what happens when settlers colonize land? Like, okay, no, the settlers colonizing the USA did not consider it a "world war" but they basically did the same thing to the Native Americans that was done to the Jews (and others, yes, I know) during WWII. Like... on purpose. Genocide is not a new thing. Systemized genocide is not a new thing. I think some of these historians are not very good at their job.
Signed,
4 shots of espresso this morning was not enough and now that I'm done crying I will be reading some more fanfic about Bucky Barnes, thanks
