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Book Review: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am grateful for this book of history of a brave people, corrupt systems and powers that broke them, and the ongoing...
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[Book Review] Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story by Mac McClelland My rating: 4 of 5 stars Great book. Important book. A "thank you for writing this" sort of book. McClelland is a journalist who experienced trauma...
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Every year I gather together the best books I read, to recommend and remember those that impacted my life or my paradigm somehow. Here are this year's, with links to the review I wrote of each. Past...
View ArticleThe Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Robert Frost. The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of the house that stood, Like a pistil after the petals go. The barn opposed across the way,...
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Book Review: Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of...
Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention by Severine Autesserre My rating: 5 of 5 stars I do not know how to rate this book! Is it 5 stars because of the...
View Article2,013 books. I wish…
Every year I gather together the best books I read that year to recommend and remember those that impacted my life or my paradigm somehow. Here are this year's, with links to the review I wrote of...
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Book review: Eating Animals (in Centrafrique)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer My rating: 3 of 5 stars I don't know why I felt compelled to read my first animal rights book in almost a decade after, first, the self-care decision made while...
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Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. (Jonathon Safron Foer, Eating Animals) Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong ting looks more...
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Book review: Trauma Stewardship, Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky My rating: 4 of 5 stars I brought this book with me to the Central African Republic, and...
View ArticlePrepping for CAR 2: Studying up
With this post I want to share some of the stuff I've been learning about Central African Republic (CAR), but I also want to use the space to present my strategies for learning about a new country or...
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Book Review: On Love by bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks My rating: 3 of 5 stars I read this book as part of my commitment to Michelle Alexander's call to action in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...
View ArticleJan-Mar: Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiongo
In 2014, I'm leading a year-long, online reading project called "African Authors on African Issues," where we'll be discussing nonfiction theory, thoughts, and critique from African authors. Our first...
View Article2,013 books. I wish…
Every year I gather together the best books I read that year to recommend and remember those that impacted my life or my paradigm somehow. Here are this year's, with links to the review I wrote of...
View ArticleFrom The Shadow of the Sun
From The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski: On the one hand, experience has taught me that situations of crisis appear more dire and dangerous from a distance than they do up close. Our...
View ArticleAttn: Punks – Where There Is No Doctor, Ch. 15: Skin Problems
Sometimes living that punker lifestyle means you get scabies. Or bedbugs. Or hives. Or pack rash. Or abscesses. Or ringworm*. Why did no one share this brilliant chart for identifying innumerable itchy...
View ArticleCategorizing recommended reading on African countries
Some members of the Goodreads Great African Reads group are trying to populate the Listopia feature with books on African countries. This is the ‘groundwork’– many of these lists are nearly empty, but...
View ArticleHumanitarian Aid – Free Resources, Readings, Courses, and Certificates
I’ve been studying up on humanitarian aid work in my spare time, so I wanted to pass along some free resources I’ve come across for people who are interested in international humanitarian aid and for...
View Articleso you’re going to Mali
[copy of the e-mail I sent to a friend headed to Mali, West Africa, for a month] Music Bamako is famous internationally for it’s traditional music, but it also has a really fun hip hop/dance scene....
View Article[diario roma] i migranti
Standing in line outside the immigration office on the outskirts of Rome (two buses and an hour later), under an awning but blown by the rain and the wind, appointment at noon and the hour approaching...
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Book review: personal finance for variable income
See also my review of The Financial Peace Planner, a finance how-to guide for low-income folks. Yeah yeah yeah, “we vow to live in poverty just to spite what they’re selling” and all that. Regardless,...
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