My latest Ways of Seeing Column: "What I've been reading"
Three years ago, I joined Goodreads’ annual reading challenge. Since then, I’ve read between 65 and 100 books a year. Frequently, I randomly choose books, then find that their topics are connected, like Camille Dungy’s memoir “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden” and Ron Rash’s novel “Serena. “
“Soil” is a memoir by poet Camille Dungy, who lives with her husband, and their daughter in Fort Collins Colorado. They are one of the few Black families in the city. She is a nature writer, a rarity among published Black women writers. I use the word “published” deliberately because for all I know there are hundreds of Black women nature writers whose works go unpublished or are not recognized as part of the genre...
To read the rest of it, go to:https://www.addisonindependent.com/2024/07/11/ways-of-seeing-what-ive-been-reading/
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