The Way of The Stranger: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood - I want to be informed about current events, but not the 24-hour sensationalist news cycle. Books such as this one are a good alternative. Discusses ISIS as an institution with reasons (religious and otherwise), rather than simply a monster that cannot be understood and nor dealt with.
The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue - Miracle of miracles, a fiction book! Pretty, evocative prose doing a riff on Orpheus/Eurydice. Got kinda bored at the end.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - Yes, that Trevor Noah. Funny, interesting, taught me about a place of which I know very little. Never a dull moment, in his life or the book.
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I'm at 931 books read - only 59 to go for our 1,000 party.
xo,
Devo
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