Saturday, December 10, 2022

(... looking at the sky, speaking without words, reading books ...)


*



*


*


*


*



*



* 


*


*


*


*


*


*


*


*


Posted by at
Labels: , , ,

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Five Smooth Stones? That book was seminal for me. Nice to see you back here.

December 12, 2022 at 1:06 AM
am said...

Hello 37Paddington. I'm sure that was your comment. After you mentioned reading Five Smooth Stones as an 11-year-old girl, I was able to get a copy from our public library. At nearly 800 pages, it took me a long time to read. It brought me back to those years both from my perspective then as a white teenage girl and from the perspective I didn't have then of the lives of black people prior to and during the civil rights movement. My eyes were opened again and again to the ongoing hatred, injustice and violence that I knew so little about as a white girl living in a white suburb of San Francisco. I was shocked and angered throughout the book -- most strongly by the murder at the end of the book I didn't see that coming. I wanted David Champlin to live and find peace after all his struggles.

December 12, 2022 at 12:12 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)