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Thanks, Luiza. Eduardo Galeano was a genius. I highly recommend his other nonfiction writing too. I'm reading Sarah Schulman's "The Cosmopolitans" at the moment and really enjoying it. Happy reading.

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Black History Month

Check out some of the classic's of one of the world's most oceanic literary tradition ie waves and waves of talented writers: Jean Toomer's experimental CANE, jewelled fullcrum of the Harlem Renaissance; Sterling A.Brown's Southern Road, one of the primo examples of the vernacular raised to the Spectacular, Gwendolyn Brooks' unsurpassed power and beauty exploring. the depths of her beloved Chicago with her masterpiece In The Mecca,a search for a lost child in an

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normous housing project.

For all you lovers , enjoyers of social justice poetry, check out my BRAND NEW first book of poetry (at 78!) JOURNEYS OF VOICES AND CHOICES BY ERNIE BRILL. 110 PAGES. $15 ON AMAZON. DISTINCTLY PRESENTED IN 5 SECTIONS LIKE A MONUMENTAL ORANGE: BROOKLYN,JEWS, AND FAMILY; WORK; VIETNAM; THE MIDDLE EAST; THE BLACK LIVES MATTER HYBRID HAIKUS AND OTHER WORKS; VARIATIONS OF LOVE

A SAMPLE: THE BOMB.

I went out for pizza

And ate all my blood.

I went to buy shoes.

And saw my foot fly through the air.

Hold me, mother.

For the last time, hold me.

And saw my foot fly through. the air.

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Tommorowx3 is on my list for this summer as well because the marketing really did the thing and made me want to read it ASAP. I tried to resist, but it kept calling to me

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It's great. Worth the hype.

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Eduardo Galeano is wonderful to read. Even when you only have a little bit of time, you can pick him up and read him for 5 minutes and there is something illuminating.

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Looking forward to hearing what you choose next and how you like it! The Creative Act sounds intriguing--I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks for putting it on my radar.

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I have some of the same books in my stack!!

Look forward to hearing your thoughts on Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I loved it, but it also kind of drove me insane.

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I HIGHLY recommend Never Let Me Go‼️. It is one of my favourite books of all time. Coincidentally, 'Babel' is also on my TBR🤣

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I have such a huge backlog of books to get to! Though currently going through 'The Deadwood Bible' by Matt Zoller Seitz, I'm hoping to read 'Ordinary Monsters,' a fantasy novel by J. M. Miro. I hope I'll find the time to do so. Lately, I've found it helps to stick to a regular book reading time block every day.

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Yeah, I have been reading before bed since I was a kid. There was a period that social media eat up this spot, but I brought it back and find it works pretty well. :)

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Vi Khi Nao is one of the most amazing writers in the world, a totally original genre/genderbender in her resplendent fantastically hilarious works such as Swimming With Dead Stars,The Private History of Torture, Fish Exile, Umbilical Hospital, and Oh God Your Babies Are So Delicious.

If you are curious to read topflight Palestinian authors , check out one of the grandest poets of the 20th and part of the21 century Mahmoud Darwish- The Butterfly's Burden and I Dont Want This Poem To End, and the great Pablo Neruda's Cantos, a history of Latin America by one of theworld'sgreat radical love poets

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