en-US Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:17:15 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 32886 272 bell hooks 0060938293 K 5 4.36 2002
author: bell hooks
name: K
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/13
date added: 2025/03/26
shelves: 2025, divorce, favorites, currently-reading, black-feminism
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This book completely cracked me open and was a balm for me this week. I connected with this 20x more than I did All About Love and that is saying a lot. So oddly relevant to everything right now (divorce, friendship breakup, developing more confidence, moving) etc. bell writes with so much clarity it's a shame that her views about the value of self-love are often over simplified, but of course that happens to everything she said. I will re-read this book again and again, I highlighted my copy so much. Gosh. I'm so thankful for her words, if anyone asks me about my views about love I will just hand them this book. A new favorite.
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author: Rachel Cusk
name: K
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/09
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]]> 220160205 A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.

An arrest for cocaine possession in the Hamptons on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a young queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous his class protects him, but his race does not.

It’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle, a glamorous member of the Black elite, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle—as well as the lingering questions of how well he really knew his closest friend and what exactly happened to her that night. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, but the weight of expectations from his family of doctors, lawyers, and college presidents only pushes him further into his downward spiral. When his close friend Carolyn goes off the rails, Smith decides to return to New York to find out what happened to her and Elle. But it’s not long before he begins to lose himself to his old life, drawn back into the city’s underworld where his search for answers may end up costing him his freedom and his future.

Smith goes on a dizzying journey through the New York City nightlife circuit, anonymous recovery rooms, Atlanta’s Black society set, police investigations and courtroom dramas, and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era. Great Black Hope is a propulsive, glittering story about what it means to exist between worlds, to be upwardly mobile yet spiraling downward, and how to find a way back to hope.]]> 320 Rob Franklin 1668077434 K 0 lit-fic, currently-reading 4.00 2025
author: Rob Franklin
name: K
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/13
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]]> 58537365 Celebrating special interests Cultivating Autistic relationships Reframing Autistic stereotypes And rediscovering your valuesIt’s time to honor the needs, diversity, and unique strengths of Autistic people so that they no longer have to mask—and it’s time for greater public acceptance and accommodation of difference. In embracing neurodiversity, we can all reap the rewards of nonconformity and learn to live authentically, Autistic and neurotypical people alike.]]> 304 Devon Price 0593235231 K 0 currently-reading 4.38 2022
author: Devon Price
name: K
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: currently-reading
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]]> 615570 The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.]]> 237 Julia Cameron 1585421464 K 0 3.93 2002
author: Julia Cameron
name: K
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 66933 Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.

The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other.

Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.]]> 251 Frantz Fanon 0802141323 K 0 4.35 1961
author: Frantz Fanon
name: K
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/23
shelves: ap-and-slavery, research, 2021, 2022-tbr, currently-reading, 2024, 2025
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]]> 40630 The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one’s will by any means available. In relations between peoples, the question of power determines maneuverability in bargaining, the extent to which a people survive as a physical and cultural entity. When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society, that in itself is a form of underdevelopment.
Before a bomb ended his life in the summer of 1980, Walter Rodney had created a powerful legacy. This pivotal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, had already brought a new perspective to the question of underdevelopment in Africa. his Marxist analysis went far beyond the heretofore accepted approach in the study of Third World underdevelopment. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an excellent introductory study for the student who wishes to better understand the dynamics of Africa’s contemporary relations with the West.]]> 312 Walter Rodney 0882580965 K 0 2024, currently-reading 4.43 1971
author: Walter Rodney
name: K
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1971
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/20
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In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health.

Written by co-hosts of the hit “Death Panel� podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Adler-Bolton and Vierkant, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as “surplus,� regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the healthy from the surplus, the worker from the “unfit� to work, the authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark whole populations for extraction by the industries that have emerged to manage and contain this “surplus� population. Health Communism then looks to the grave threat capital poses to global public health, and at the rare movements around the world that have successfully challenged the extractive economy of health.

Ultimately, Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue, we will not succeed in defeating capitalism until we sever health from capital. To do this will require a radical new politics of solidarity that centers the surplus, built on an understanding that we must not base the value of human life on one’s willingness or ability to be productive within the current political economy. Capital, it turns out, only fears health.]]> 240 Beatrice Adler-Bolton 183976516X K 0 4.32 2022
author: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
name: K
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/07
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