seriela | [CC] Good Friday Reads, 2020 @seriela | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
What I finished last week and possible upcoming reads.
Watching Crash Landing on You (kdrama):
netflix.com/title/81159258
Compelling article: "Who Do We Expect to Sacrifice?"
slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/coronavirus-deaths-essential-workers.html
For more information on the pandemic in Puerto Rico:
The Center for Investigative Journalism (English section):
periodismoinvestigativo.com/category/english
David Begnaud, anything by him on Puerto Rico:
twitter.com/DavidBegnaud?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Antonia tu nombre es una historia, by Hiram Sánchez Martínez:
goodreads.com/book/show/45894284-antonia-tu-nombre-es-una-history?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BBY0a95tSW&rank=2
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral HIstory of 9/11, by Garrett M. Graff:
goodreads.com/book/show/43821581-the-only-plane-in-the-sky?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Zl5oCd6uVs&rank=1
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
goodreads.com/book/show/36620482-the-heartbeat-of-wounded-knee?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vwFdn0vx7W&rank=1
The Violence of Love, by Oscar Romero:
goodreads.com/book/show/226862.The_Violence_of_Love?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Um2jGahH7x&rank=1
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott:
goodreads.com/book/show/891669.Plan_B
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott:
goodreads.com/book/show/12542.Grace_Eventually_?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zCojqVVT2I&rank=1
Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.:
goodreads.com/book/show/1697365.Why_We_Can_t_Wait
A Month of Sundays: Thirty-One Days of Wrestling with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John:
goodreads.com/book/show/51800813-a-month-of-sundays?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=tl7p07QeRc&rank=1
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison:
goodreads.com/book/show/5216.Song_of_Solomon
The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse:
goodreads.com/book/show/13519.The_Journey_to_the_East?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=OjAurXriUW&rank=1
Terra Nullius, by Claire G. Coleman:
goodreads.com/book/show/35603581-terra-nullius?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=F3MM8ycszR&rank=1
Aftershocks of Disaster, ed. Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón:
goodreads.com/book/show/45156634-aftershocks-of-disaster?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=X0yTu3CQJj&rank=1
Some Tame Gazelle, by Barbara Pym:
goodreads.com/book/show/1198122.Some_Tame_Gazelle
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Shawn the Book Maniac:
youtube.com/watch?v=t5YZiIkz79Y
Steve Donoghue:
youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue
#PuertoRico #BookTubePrize #AussieApril
What I finished last week and possible upcoming reads.
Watching Crash Landing on You (kdrama):
netflix.com/title/81159258
Compelling article: "Who Do We Expect to Sacrifice?"
slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/coronavirus-deaths-essential-workers.html
For more information on the pandemic in Puerto Rico:
The Center for Investigative Journalism (English section):
periodismoinvestigativo.com/category/english
David Begnaud, anything by him on Puerto Rico:
twitter.com/DavidBegnaud?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Antonia tu nombre es una historia, by Hiram Sánchez Martínez:
goodreads.com/book/show/45894284-antonia-tu-nombre-es-una-history?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BBY0a95tSW&rank=2
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral HIstory of 9/11, by Garrett M. Graff:
goodreads.com/book/show/43821581-the-only-plane-in-the-sky?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Zl5oCd6uVs&rank=1
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
goodreads.com/book/show/36620482-the-heartbeat-of-wounded-knee?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vwFdn0vx7W&rank=1
The Violence of Love, by Oscar Romero:
goodreads.com/book/show/226862.The_Violence_of_Love?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Um2jGahH7x&rank=1
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott:
goodreads.com/book/show/891669.Plan_B
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott:
goodreads.com/book/show/12542.Grace_Eventually_?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zCojqVVT2I&rank=1
Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.:
goodreads.com/book/show/1697365.Why_We_Can_t_Wait
A Month of Sundays: Thirty-One Days of Wrestling with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John:
goodreads.com/book/show/51800813-a-month-of-sundays?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=tl7p07QeRc&rank=1
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison:
goodreads.com/book/show/5216.Song_of_Solomon
The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse:
goodreads.com/book/show/13519.The_Journey_to_the_East?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=OjAurXriUW&rank=1
Terra Nullius, by Claire G. Coleman:
goodreads.com/book/show/35603581-terra-nullius?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=F3MM8ycszR&rank=1
Aftershocks of Disaster, ed. Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón:
goodreads.com/book/show/45156634-aftershocks-of-disaster?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=X0yTu3CQJj&rank=1
Some Tame Gazelle, by Barbara Pym:
goodreads.com/book/show/1198122.Some_Tame_Gazelle
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Shawn the Book Maniac:
youtube.com/watch?v=t5YZiIkz79Y
Steve Donoghue:
youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue
#PuertoRico #BookTubePrize #AussieApril
![[CC] Good Friday Reads, 2020](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pQx7Liy9CZo/hqdefault.jpg "[CC] Good Friday Reads, 2020
What I finished last week and possible upcoming reads.
Watching Crash Landing on You (kdrama):
https://www.netflix.com/title/81159258
Compelling article: Who Do We Expect to Sacrifice?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/coronavirus-deaths-essential-workers.html
For more information on the pandemic in Puerto Rico:
The Center for Investigative Journalism (English section):
http://periodismoinvestigativo.com/category/english/
David Begnaud, anything by him on Puerto Rico:
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Antonia tu nombre es una historia, by Hiram Sánchez Martínez:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45894284-antonia-tu-nombre-es-una-history?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=BBY0a95tSW&rank=2
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral HIstory of 9/11, by Garrett M. Graff:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43821581-the-only-plane-in-the-sky?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Zl5oCd6uVs&rank=1
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36620482-the-heartbeat-of-wounded-knee?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vwFdn0vx7W&rank=1
The Violence of Love, by Oscar Romero:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226862.The_Violence_of_Love?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Um2jGahH7x&rank=1
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/891669.Plan_B
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12542.Grace_Eventually_?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zCojqVVT2I&rank=1
Why We Cant Wait, by Martin Luther King Jr.:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1697365.Why_We_Can_t_Wait
A Month of Sundays: Thirty-One Days of Wrestling with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51800813-a-month-of-sundays?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=tl7p07QeRc&rank=1
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5216.Song_of_Solomon
The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13519.The_Journey_to_the_East?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=OjAurXriUW&rank=1
Terra Nullius, by Claire G. Coleman:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35603581-terra-nullius?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=F3MM8ycszR&rank=1
Aftershocks of Disaster, ed. Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45156634-aftershocks-of-disaster?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=X0yTu3CQJj&rank=1
Some Tame Gazelle, by Barbara Pym:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1198122.Some_Tame_Gazelle
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Shawn the Book Maniac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YZiIkz79Y
Steve Donoghue:
https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue
#PuertoRico #BookTubePrize #AussieApril")
![[CC] From Books to Action/Get to Work Wednesday](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qIQFdAt6PMc/hqdefault.jpg "[CC] From Books to Action/Get to Work Wednesday
Bonus: Storytime
Excited to participate in Get to Work Wednesday/From Books to Action with
Sarah at Hardcover Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTCAjP8CaoE&t=45s
PLEASE feel free to add resources and suggestions.
SUGGESTIONS:
1 - Focus/identify the area of racial inequity that calls to you:
Health, education, housing, policing, mass incarceration, art, environmental justice, voting,
gender, tech, etc.
2. Start small: sign petitions, donate, show up at local meetings
3. Find established, trusted organizations in your area. EXAMPLE:
The Harrisburg First Church of the Brethren hosted an intergenerational zoom study of
Jemar Tisbys The Color of Compromise, examining American Christianity’s racial past
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLqWlboDjnQDcJICzobmRA/videos
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, by Angela Davis
Building Powerful Community Organizations, by Michael Jacoby Brown
(One of his videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws58VrYAVuY)
VIDEOS MENTIONED:
Eyes on the Prize Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Interview (1986):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-3R_Qd9gA&list=PLz7WWEJz5NH38rHCOHrq_5RjLW65_prn4&index=47&t=0s
Britta Bohler mentioned two excellent articles on performative and non-performative actions in her video on allyship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Q_x_21gps
The articles:
https://forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c900645d9f1f
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-optical-allyship-3-ways-to-be-actively-anti-racist-22956518
PODCAST: Boston Public Radio interview with Professor Saidy Grundy:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2020/07/29/sadia-grundy-you-cant-read-your-way-into-antiracism
The gas explosion in Baltimore last week: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/11/headlines/baltimore_gas_blast_kills_one_person_injures_seven
OTHER ACTIONS:
BLM parent site: https://blacklivesmatter.com
BLM resource links list: https://blacklivesmatter.carrd.co/
Support the fight against police brutality against Black bodies:https://www.aclu.org/other/fighting-p
NAACP Legal Defense Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org/
Breonna Taylor petition: https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforbre-breonna-taylor-officers-fired?source=coc_main_website
Iowa derecho:
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/how-to-help-those-affected-by-the-iowa-derecho
Lebanon:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/how-to-help-lebanon-beirut.html
#FromBookstoAction #PuertoRico")
![2020 Boomer Stats+ PSA+Mini-vlog/13Jan2021 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qmq0Z0FNamY/hqdefault.jpg "2020 Boomer Stats+ PSA+Mini-vlog/13Jan2021 [CC]
Suggested action, plus OG stats and miscellany.
PSA: @jesscraven101 on tiktok models scripts for calling, emailing, etc. your elected officials - AND corporate donors!
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Sonya at an enthusiastic reader:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3250HMLBuTSIveMXVJxI2w
Shawn the Book Maniac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ZQaPw8qv4&t=9s
Hannah at Hannahs Books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTP-eigg9s
Justin at Ghost Reader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYNFkR0ZCw8
Ros at Scallydandling about the books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDD_YGuYao
Brian at Bookish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxbnvXTJVDU&t=183s
For her 2021 spreadsheet, Sophie at Portal in the Pages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJYGnGjD7Q&t=884s
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner
Wilmingtons Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
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Black lives matter more than ever in 2021 and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
#FromBookstoAction #PuertoRico")
![#Cromwellathon Weeks 1 & 2 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sttqAfaPonc/hqdefault.jpg "#Cromwellathon Weeks 1 & 2 [CC]
My reaction to the biography by Diarmaid MacCulloch
and up to p.162 of Wolf Hall.
Puerto Rico Seismic Network (If youre interested...):
http://redsismica.uprm.edu/english/
Jason includes all the videos on Wolf Hall in the
#Cromwellathon PLAYLIST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFFsOs0n18&list=PLQR7MV0gwHp2iqdiziYbK2JtwbGqOujlj")
![[CC]Weekly Reads 24Oct20](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v6DDjouM0Tc/hqdefault.jpg "[CC]Weekly Reads 24Oct20
Guess what happens at the end? Youre right! 🤣
Stay tuned for Part 2 during the week.
Links at the bottom for #endsars
BOOKS MENTIONED:
El amante turco (The Turkish Lover) by Esmeralda Santiago
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Heidi @ My Reading Life:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftcdJ7T0cQaz2DIV9abD6w
Doris @ all D books:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUd11Ux5dXkADUynY-4MCA
Karen Evans:
https://www.youtube.com/user/k4evans1
Belinda @ Belindas Book Nook:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGuVegYkRaV3VP2cZkI-iw
Kim @ MIDDLE of the Book MARCH:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFUmSRDQPqf56PXNO5Q6lqA
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Black lives continue to matter in October and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
#endsars:
Nigerian Booktuber, Noria @ Chronicles of Noria, has this message on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGt8BlZAOnF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Njeri addresses the #endsars protests in Nigeria in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpy5yEjhgQ
#PuertoRico #endsars")
