Sylvia Sierra Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sylvia Sierra

please enjoy this wonderful vintage copy of Irving Stone’s “Lust for Life: A novel about Van Gogh” with me, that I picked up a while back and hadn’t gotten around to looking at more closely let alone reading until now https://t.co/x3JIEIIIUk

Sylvia Sierra

so I’m about 85 pages into an audiobook of Stephen King’s The Stand and I don’t know if I can stand it. Never read anything by him before. There’s a lot of racist and sexist language, can’t tell if it’s him being that way or characterization, and the dialogue is awful

Sylvia Sierra

@marisollebron I recommend the Curable app, game changer for chronic pain (also Dr John Sarno’s book, Healing Back Pain)

Sylvia Sierra

sooo I started trying to read Agatha Christie’s And then there were none, and right in the first or second chapter there’s some anti-semitic stereotypes, and THEN I learned what the original title of the book was

Sylvia Sierra

reading Kindred and cursing myself for not having read any Octavia Butler until now

Sylvia Sierra

please enjoy this wonderful vintage copy of Irving Stone’s “Lust for Life: A novel about Van Gogh” with me, that I picked up a while back and hadn’t gotten around to looking at more closely let alone reading until now https://t.co/x3JIEIIIUk

Sylvia Sierra

Another great (and short!) read by Barbara Ehrenreich (with Deirdre English) is Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1972). Might change the way you think about witches, and the history of medicine: https://t.co/pdKoBebZrM

Sylvia Sierra

"The most important Van Gogh book of 2022 is undoubtedly the English edition of Hans Luijten’s Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous. Until recently, knowledge of Jo’s role was mainly confined to Van Gogh aficionados.." https://t.co/xYIJ6JFK4P

Sylvia Sierra

@hmking_linguist @Barakos_E @clsociolingsem Boxer, Diana, 1993. Complaining and commiserating: A speech act view of solidarity in spoken American English. New York: Peter Lang. also check out @Nat_Shri's & my chapter in @LangInTrumpEra, where we look at how he complains about the media to bond with supporters

Sylvia Sierra

This book is really good and also horrifying: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43868109