Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

This discussion thread is to mark your completion of the December challenge to fulfill prompt #36 A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person.

National Mudd Day is December 20! What is National Mudd Day, you may ask? It references a fascinating bit of history I doubt many of us know. Dr. Samuel Mudd was a doctor who helped John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator David Herold immediately following Lincoln’s assassination on the night of April 14, 1865. Mudd performed surgery on Booth and allowed them to spend the night. He didn’t report the men’s visit for another 24 hours, though it was assumed he would have heard of the assassination well before that time. Mudd was arrested 12 days later and eventually convicted to a life sentence by a military commission for the crime of aiding and conspiring in a murder, missing the death penalty by only one vote!

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Title: The Canterville Ghost
Author: Oscar Wilde
Would you recommend this book? It's more of a short story/novella. But yes, it's fun and funny story and definitely not your typical ghost story. If you like Oscar Wilde, it's must.

Title: Are Prisons Obsolete?28]
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Would you recommend this book? YES! This should be compulsory reading for living in the U.S. Or anywhere else in the world, for that matter.
I am so bingeing Writings by Angela Y. Davis!

Title: The Big Gold Dream
Author: Chester Himes
Would you recommend this book?
I gave it 3*. If you like noir and hardboiled detective stories, then yes. In addition, this is by a POC author with POC detectives writing about civil unrest in the 50s in Harlem.