Patricia Rooney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Patricia Rooney

To say Marlon James’ African fantasy saga is hard to review coherently is understatement. ⁦@NatashiaDeon⁩ manages. MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING, Book 2 by Marlon James https://t.co/VTXEDrroOt

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The main concern of PA state Rep Frank Ryan (R, Lebanon), who Mastriano has announced would be his transition chair should he win, was with the Department of State’s internal processes, not fraud. https://t.co/7iSYEBu1lt via @SpotlightPA

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Reading THE PASSENGER, book one of a two-part novel by Corman McCarthy ⁦@AAKnopf⁩ & had immediate flashbacks to ⁦@chrisabani⁩ and his novels of disaffection in the Southwest and L.A. https://t.co/xqIuMr9i7o https://t.co/1UbWFpxiwT

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“…two top academics this year released an impeccably timed book…called The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, by Yale’s Philip S. Gorski & the University of Oklahoma’s Samuel L. Perry…” via @Will_Bunch

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This @latimes OpEd, by a retired high school teacher and the daughter of the woman written about in Joan Didion's collection SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, knocked me out: https://t.co/24ohmdAZAs

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@goodreads Whoops! The VERY last book I recommended to friends was AFTER THE IVORY TOWER FALLS by @Will_Bunch because it looks at America’s current partisan crisis through the failure on the part of universities & colleges to fulfill their side of the bargain: jobs at a price we can afford. https://t.co/WYNgjkibF5

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Review of WE'RE STILL HERE: PAIN & POLITICS IN THE HEART OF AMERICA by @JenSilva422 @OUPAcademic A confounding & heartbreaking book. https://bit.ly/36kL3ou https://t.co/32REfQjCcW

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On the Civil War: “There was a right side and a wrong side in the late war which no sentiment ought to cause us to forget.”— Frederick Douglass https://t.co/UG86eI6J76

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“…the program has produced 128 original songs, including an ambitious work of almost operatic scope called “Lincoln Portrait” — a collection of deeply researched songs highlighting Abraham Lincoln’s speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.” https://t.co/bjwBsUuLPJ

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I’m just quoting a South Carolina blue blood when I say, via Tony Horwitz in CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC, “that’s where the Cause (Confederacy) got most people. Prison. Downward mobility. An early grave.” Hey, don’t blame me. It YOUR history, wankers.