Recently finished #PushNovel #SapphireAuthor Four out of four stars. Would recommend (Content Warning: Sexual abuse / assault). Would read again. "I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver." Continuing with: #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #HowardZinn
Recently finished #AutumnNovel #AliSmith Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times." In progress: #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #HowardZinn
Recently finished #PraterViolet #ChristopherIsherwood Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Mr. Isherwood?" Continuing with #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #HowardZinn
Recently finished #TheMachineStops #EMForster Three out of four stars. Would recommend (but -not- this edition; print on demand should not exist!) Might read again. "Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee." Continuing with: #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #HowardZinn
"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn
Full text: https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/
#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #GOP #Musk #DOGE #ICE #Antifa #Vote
