Welcome back everyone! If you were in America and had a nice dinner, I hope it went smoothly. I made stuffing for my family, but forgot that rule. Why do we only make it once a year?!
As we gear up for the holiday season, this is my go-to for shopping local and buying from small businesses. For many people, the majority of their sales occur during this time.
I have more non-fiction, plus some beautifully illustrated books and magical urban fantasy.
Is there a book you would like to recommend? Please tell us!
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against technoblism
This is the first of two activity-focused titles on I Today. This was recommended to me at work. One of our research groups focuses on amputee patients, which brings this to my attention.
A manifesto that explodes what we think we know about disability and argues that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Hsu became a self-described “chemical brain amputation patient with Crohn’s disease and hearing loss with tinnitus,” there was no going back to “normal.” Suddenly, her well-meaning people were calling her an “inspiration” while grocery shopping, or seeing her as the poor recipient of her technological wizardry. Most disabled people don’t want, and generally aren’t asked for, what they assume non-disabled people want. Why do able-bodied people view disability as a personal problem requiring technological solutions, rather than a social problem?
With a warm, uplifting, opinionated voice and vibrant prose, Hsu shares how we can create better stories and a more accessible future by harnessing the insights of communities across disability. Show what you can create. Because the future will certainly be hampered by climate change, new diseases, and even space travel. The time has come for all of us to learn how to think about disability technology and to imagine disability not as a liability, but as a skill set that enables us all to survive a difficult world.
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The Bodies Keep Coming
This is a memoir that focuses on racism and racial injustice in the health care system. I have recommended this to several people in my personal life who are already very interested in this topic.
A masterpiece that diagnoses the structural roots of the violence that plagues us all.
Trauma surgeon and professor Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen everything from gunshot wounds to stab wounds to traumatic brain injuries.in The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams takes us into the trauma bay where the scars of the national emergency accumulate. As a Harvard-trained doctor, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel at the ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow his anger when a patient asked him to take out the trash.
Days after the tragic police shootings of two black men, Williams tried to save the life of a police officer shot in Dallas, the deadliest incident for law enforcement in the United States since 9/11. . Stepping into the spotlight in a country that prefers feel-good stories of heroism to the hard truths about racism, Williams has opened up about health care, injustice, and what real healing looks like. made me reconsider everything I thought I knew.
Now, Williams tells in raw, intimate detail not only the events of that night in 2016, but also the grief and anger of Black doctors on the front lines of treating trauma. In the tradition of physician writers such as Atul Gawande and Damon Tweedy, Williams diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to reanimate, training his surgeon’s eye for the structural illnesses that manifest in his patients’ bodies.
What if racism wasn’t a bug but a feature of the health care system? What if profiting from racial inequality was exactly what it was designed to do? Williams argues that brown bodies will continue to be marred by all kinds of violence. Until we change our policies and laws with compassion and care, the bodies will keep coming.
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death of the godfather
Looking for a quirky and beautiful picture book for all ages? A little bit of illustration style thief and shoemakerI love this piece, and thanks to Wikipedia I learned that it wasn’t completely finished.
The soul-stirring reimagined Grimm stories by award-winning author Sally Nichols and haunting illustrations by Julia Sarda will captivate and excite readers of all ages.
When a poor fisherman chooses Grim Reaper to be his son’s godfather, he knows he has made a good choice. Because there can’t be anyone more honest than the Grim Reaper. At the baptism, the Grim Reaper gives the Fisherman a gift that at first appears to be the key to his family’s fortune, but when greed overcomes the Fisherman, he realizes that no one can truly deceive the Grim Reaper. know. . .
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one for the enemy
I’m very attached to Kat Howard Sorcerer’s unkindness, so anything about witches struggling for power in modern-day New York pushes a lot of my buttons. And maybe you too!
A tale of two feuding witch families from the New York Times bestselling author of Atlas Six. Each fights to maintain control of their criminal activities in modern-day New York City.
On one side of the conflict are the beautiful, cunning and ruthless Antonova sisters and their mother, an elusive purveyor of a high-grade intoxicant known only as Baba Yaga. Meanwhile, the influential Fedorov brothers work for their father, a crime boss known as the Immortal Koschei, whose community extortion business rules the shadows of magical Manhattan.
After 12 years of tenuous coexistence, a change in one family’s interests causes a crack in the existing stalemate. When bad blood threatens to destroy both families, fate intervenes in a chance encounter, and everyone must choose sides in the aftershocks of renewed conflict. As each brother struggles for his rights, loyalties fray and both threaten to rot from within.
That is, if hostilities between empires do not destroy empires first.
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