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Month: December 2017

Lil’ hiatus

Taking a minute. All is well, but busy.

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Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on December 17, 2017Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on Lil’ hiatus

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I loved Weather by Jenny Offill so much I read it twice in two weeks. A sharp, witty and cutting piece about how it feels to live right now, Weather covers the life of one university librarian as she juggles the responsibilities of her work, family life and supporting her tenuously sober brother - all while consumed with a sense of impending doom about climate crisis.

"..obsession with impact is an infection and it's getting worse. Altus wants to make it worse. You're going to Puerto Rico so that you can protect us from ourselves. Do you know what I think the most amazing thing the human race has ever done is? It isn't the weapons we've built, and it certainly isn't the weapons we've used, it's the weapons we haven't used. Idiots like Peter Petrawicki talk all the time about self-control, about how they carry the burden of changing the world on their shoulders. But they do that with an ambition turned in on themselves. They want to be the voice and the face and the mind of the change. In truth, they have no self-control at all. They are slaves to their ambitions and to their need to feel admired. The truest strength is shouldering the burden of care."

🌷 Some pastels for the #springstackchallenge. Thanks @readingwithsam for the tag!

"I knew that a black boy who lives in the hilly deserts of California, who likes to get high with his friends on the weekend and who freezes in a prickly sweat whenever he sees blue lights in his rearview, would need a book like this. A book that would reckon with the fire of rage and despair and fierce, protective love currently sweeping through the streets and campuses of America."

And just like that, we're back to work.

One year into the panny-d, still reading my way through it. Here's the books I finished in March.

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