What are you reading? (An invitation)
Hi Everyone,
What are you reading? Anything you’re loving and can recommend to us? What’s on your nightstand right now waiting to be read? Or are you reading something compelling for research?
Please share in the comments sections!
Thanks and abrazos,
Cristina
I'm reading The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. I am totally seduced by her narrative and reading very slowly as I savor the language. I loved reading The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa and The Underground RailRoad by Colson Whitehead haunts my dreams. Other of my recent favorites are Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Highway and Allende's Violeta, and Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence. I have so many books on my TR stack that I couldn't possibly list them all, but looking forward to some memoirs--Cecily Tyson's and Viola Davis'. My research stack is huge, especially since my recent trip to PR. Here are some of the titles I can't wait to dive into: Letters to a Writer of Color; Drops of Inclusivity: Racail Formations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society 1898-1955.; El negro y la negra libres: PR 1800-1873, su presencia y contribución; Sembrando y sanando en PR, tradiciones y visiones; Tras la huella del negro; and Spiritist Women in PR, 1880-1920. I'll just stop here.
I recommend Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas --Psychoanalysis, History and Memorir by Nancy Caro Hollander. What has happened in our minds and hearts to allow the ongoing violence in Latin America, México, and our Borderland? We are still reeling from the Migrant deaths in Juárez and will never recover from the Walmart shooting. This incisive book is one of a collection of books in the Human Rights Section of our Museo de La Gente, our Archival Resource Center.