Books!

Wow - 2021 is coming to an end!

What an intense amazing painful exhilarating wonderful terrible year!

For this last post of the year I want to share some of the books that had the biggest impact on me this year.

When I was chronically ill for many years, I wasn’t able to read much due to cognitive impairment. One of the great joys of being well again is recovering my love of books.

I’m so grateful to the authors of these beautiful, powerful books!

Non-Fiction:

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

More Than A Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament, by Lexie Kite and Lindsay Kite

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture, by Emma Dabiri

The Whiteness of Wealth, by Dorothy A. Brown

Books on Trauma:

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem

Memoir:

Don’t Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, by Savala Nolan

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, by Valarie Kaur

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, by Tarana Burke

Novels:

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev, by Dawnie Walton

Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

The Prophets, by Robert Jones, Jr.

The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

Also, when I just really want a happy ending sometimes I read romance novels:) This year I discovered the novels of Jasmine Guillory and especially enjoyed her most recent - While We Were Dating.

What books made the biggest impact on you this year?

Wishing you a 2022 full of much love, good health, and all good things!

Love,

Liz