#howtoreadnow

Also highly recommend @roxanegay74’s #AudaciousBookClub for books and conversations that challenge and delight like @_elainecastillo’s #HowToReadNow and @omololaijeoma’s #JollofRiceAndOtherRevolutions. 📚 #amreading https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm2K8DEvVpP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT is here! And today we highlight a book that will challenge your thoughts around reading. It’s always pleasurable when you can pick up a book and be intellectually stimulated and actually learn something. I got my copy from @kindredstorieshtx. In my brief thoughts, I wrote; ✍🏾 Some great points made in this collection. Expanded my idea of reading and expounded upon some of the familiar tropes we readers parrot about reading. Reading creates empathy. That pithy saying was delightfully destroyed. And her discussion of representation writing was nuanced and prescient. “Representation Matters Art is still, ultimately, just another armed wing of the attentive arts of white supremacy: it’s the kind of art you make when someone has told you to prove you’re a human—and you agree. It’s art that makes us stupider, the way white supremacy makes us stupider: it was bad enough to rob us of life, land, and language, but style, too, babe? It’s the kind of art you make when every impulse you have is a conditioned fear response to some imaginary white specter in the audience, in the mirror.” All-in-all a very good collection of essays that takes a fine razor to the culture of book reading and inflicts a thousand cuts all the while informing and creating smarter readers. This book needs to be on your shelf. #howtoreadnow #elainecastillo #ownvoicesreviews #readmorebooks #blackbibliophile #goodreads #kindredstories #booksaremylife #readingismylife #makereadinglitagain #sundayspotlight #vikingpress (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmUBZ7zL7zJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=