What I'm Reading Wednesday
Oct. 3rd, 2012 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21I'm changing the format some, because I don't like the questions. And some books take me longer than a week to get through because sometimes I'm not in the mood for that subject or that level of complexity, so I switch off a lot. And I never know what I'm going to read next- it completely depends on how I feel when I look at the bookshelf. Plus, a lot of my reading is online, too- I read blogs and articles and whatnot at least as often as I read actual books, if not more. So, I'm going to highlight things I've read in the last week that I enjoyed and maybe the things I added to the reading list over the past week, if anything.
The first book I'm going to mention is Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience", edited by Lawson Fusao Inada. This is one of my favorite kinds of history books- it's basically a book of primary sources with some short context/explanatory essays. It includes oral histories, poetry, artwork, official documents, diaries and excerpts from memoirs of people who were affected by the Japanese Internment during World War II. Most of the material is from Japanese Americans, but there are accounts from people who worked in the camps, from people who were not Japanese, but were also arrested or interned, and from those of Japanese ancestry who fought in WWII. It's part of a story that most Americans haven't been told in any sort of detail and this is a very accessible way of telling that story. I highly recommend it to everyone.
I also read an article about Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panther's player who brutally murdered his girlfriend because she wouldn't get an abortion after she became pregnant with his child. The article is actually about his son, who was delivered prematurely and has cerebral palsy due to his mother's fatal injuries. It's a heart-rending article. I'd share the link, but I think it's paywalled. It's in the September 17th issue.
New stuff includes:
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World by Beth Kanter. This is more career oriented/but I like this kind of stuff too reading.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Because I am the very definition of an introvert, for all that I talk all the time online.
The first book I'm going to mention is Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience", edited by Lawson Fusao Inada. This is one of my favorite kinds of history books- it's basically a book of primary sources with some short context/explanatory essays. It includes oral histories, poetry, artwork, official documents, diaries and excerpts from memoirs of people who were affected by the Japanese Internment during World War II. Most of the material is from Japanese Americans, but there are accounts from people who worked in the camps, from people who were not Japanese, but were also arrested or interned, and from those of Japanese ancestry who fought in WWII. It's part of a story that most Americans haven't been told in any sort of detail and this is a very accessible way of telling that story. I highly recommend it to everyone.
I also read an article about Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panther's player who brutally murdered his girlfriend because she wouldn't get an abortion after she became pregnant with his child. The article is actually about his son, who was delivered prematurely and has cerebral palsy due to his mother's fatal injuries. It's a heart-rending article. I'd share the link, but I think it's paywalled. It's in the September 17th issue.
New stuff includes:
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World by Beth Kanter. This is more career oriented/but I like this kind of stuff too reading.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Because I am the very definition of an introvert, for all that I talk all the time online.