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Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Craig’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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| Definitely a book for folks committed to diving deep into Jungian waters. On one level, it's Jung's final statement and in salient ways his most profound. Because he uses alchemy as a touchstone for delving into the intricacies of psychological proce ...more | |
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| Excellent from start to finish, Barley Child combines a deep dive into Irish American experience with a family story set in a Michigan directly (and quite consciously) related to Phil Levine's. For a book so deeply grounded in memory, there's not a t ...more | |
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| Absolute top tier popular science writing, in part because Rovelli clearly understands the difference between making arguments designed to establish possibility, probability, and (always slightly contingent) certainty. Written in crystal clear, often ...more | |
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| Best approached as a kind of reference book chronicling the least understood period of Miles Davis' career, one that's very close to my musical heart and soul. Obviously not to discount the towering achievements of the first (Coltrane, Bill Evans) an ...more | |
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| The final section of this National Book Award winning novel brought a whole lot of what had previously seemed slightly disconnected segments into a clear focus, adding important dimensions to the gay narrative, the family chronicle, and the implicati ...more | |
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“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 12:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 781 | Mar 01, 2025 11:35AM |
