Sabra Boyd Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisSabra BoydAnytime someone tells me they’re moving to LA for the first time I give them a copy of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz and they’re always like “lol, ok nerd I’m going to Hollywood” https://t.co/AwXRagq4aM
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
George Washington Carver: Level 1.8.3 ABV LV
ReadSabra BoydGeorge Washington Carver's Jesup Wagons never received federal funding from the Smith-Lever Act, or other national legislation, right?? I've read hundreds of pages to fact check this, that the Tuskegee Institute's Movable School was never funded by the federal government. And yet
Paperback, 2006
$14.80$7.40 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
Rayya EliasSabra Boydparticipating in a tradition, our house was the only one egged and toilet papered. And those words soaped on the windows—weirdo and ******* and **********—weren’t at all “normal.” We were different from these people. They knew it, and now I did, too. -Harley Loco by Rayya Elias https://t.co/GpE9687OQr
Paperback, 2014
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
That Kind of Mother
Rumaan AlamSabra Boyd@imnatecorddry That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Paperback, 2019
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary RoachSabra BoydThe whole “Will you still love me if I turn into a worm” discourse was already solved when @mary_roach published Gulp in 2013. We’re all loveable earthworms with arms and legs
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. ButlerSabra Boyd@BrandonLBradfor I wouldn’t want it rewritten at all, but I would have loved if Octavia Butler had had time to write an additional prequel to Parable of the Sower about Lauren’s mother and from her perspective as protagonist
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors
Fred ArmisenSabra BoydI just heard the most Olympia story ever about a love triangle at the co-op that puts every Portlandia episode to shame. I need to pitch this tv series to Carrie Brownstein immediately
Paperback, 2012
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Deep
Rivers SolomonSabra Boyd@pjmaciak -In the Dream House -Beloved -That Kind of Mother -The Barter -The Last Call (extremely gruesome) -Lincoln in the Bardo -The Only Good Indians -The Deep by Rivers Solomon -Kindred (I kind of see this as a time traveling ghost story)
Paperback, 2020
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg OlsenSabra BoydMy mom always snapped my bra straps and asked if I was a turtle. It’s only in my 30s that I’ve realized what an awful bully my mom was and how narrowly I escaped my parents. Reading @Gregg_Olsen’s book “If You Tell” also helped me come to terms with my mom’s cruelty https://t.co/6cUrOGM5wN
Paperback, 2019
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Secret Lives of Color
Kassia St ClairSabra Boyd@blgtylr Partly color theory, part human history’s relationship with colors, I reference The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair when I’m writing all the time. It’s like my color thesaurus https://t.co/obu4OsoNIa
Hardcover, 2017
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book