Books and other leisurely pursuits
I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer by Ahmet Altan is by far the best memoir I’ve read in a long time – possibly ever. Altan is a Turkish journalist, novelist, and political prisoner. This memoir is a collection of brief essays he wrote after his 2016 arrest and imprisonment.
I first read Native Son in college. (That’s my copy in the photo.) And while I know I read it – there are highlights, notes […] Read More
As our country comes face to face once again with systemic racism and the enormous gaps in race equality, many are turning to various forms […] Read More
Cara Wall’s debut novel The Dearly Beloved is the story of two couples, fresh out of college and newly married. The men have been assigned to […] Read More
The History of Loneliness by John Boyne was an interesting book to be reading right now. Boyne is best known for The Boy in the Striped […] Read More
A couple of times a year, my team at work volunteers with a different not-for-profit around Atlanta. Last month, we spent a morning with Books […] Read More
I’ve been mulling over this review of An American Marriage for a while, wanting to write it in a way that does it justice. To […] Read More
I bought The Fact of a Body after hearing about it on the Literary Disco podcast*. My plan had been to give it my dad […] Read More
The Ragamuffin Gospel changed the way I think of God’s love. For someone who has been a Christian as long as I have, and for […] Read More
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community is the last book Martin Luther King, Jr. penned before his assassination in 1968. It’s a series of […] Read More