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Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Five stars if you're a card carrying Lunatic. Hard to imagine a better coffee table books on our mysterious neighbor. Combining several dozen essays on the science, myth, culture and explorations (real and imaginary) with detailed examination of NASA ...more | |
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| An excellent debut volume that offers a chilling and precise sense of the emotional tenor of the Covid/post-Covid (whatever that might mean) years. The volume gets off to a terrific start: the first three poems ("Today," "Privilege," and "Another Thi ...more | |
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| Picked up a fair amount of detail about the history of my hometown of Colorado Springs which, as Schultz's title suggests, managed to acquire a reputation (partially earned) as a stronghold of right wing Christian evangelicalism. He's particularly go ...more | |
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| As the 70s wound down, Schulz stayed in his comfortable groove. Some side excursions--Molly Volley's tennis rage, Eudora gifted smitten Linus's blanket, Charlie Brown takes a stab at managing another team. A bit more of Peppermint Patty and Sally Bro ...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
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