November — my first book club
Favorite book: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Least favorite book: Note to Self by Connor Franta
Read I would recommend: Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay* (my first book club read!)
Memorable quotes:
I don’t ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors, almost always fails. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Whites in the middle class often brought with them generational wealth—the home of a deceased parent, a modest inheritance, a gift from a favorite uncle. Blacks in the middle class often brought with them generational debt—an incarcerated father, an evicted niece, a mother forced to take in her sister’s kids. And these conditions, themselves, could not be separated out from the specific injury of racism, one that was not addressed by simply moving up a rung. Racism was not a singular one-dimensional vector but a pandemic, afflicting black communities at every level, regardless of what rung they occupied. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
I know that “gentrification” is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim Crow, the interest on redlining, compounding across the years, and these new urbanites living off of that interest are, all of them, exulting in a crime. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy