After my recent series of mini-dissertations, a change of pace.

Robin DiAngelo's Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm provides for an opportunity to offer a succinct Book Review No. 4.

The correct answer to that "how" is "by enabling dysfunction and calling it affirming diversity."  That's not where she goes, but it ( Read more... )

I read this, despite it getting a bad review on this very group; I was inclined to agree.


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#16: The Seasons of Lent by Dr. K.P. Yohannan, Metropolitan


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Poirot's Early Cases - Agatha Christie
Pages: 263
Amazon Blurb: Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay's death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine ( Read more... )

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book 60: The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans ( Read more... )

Book 55: The Twits by Roald Dahl

Well, Roald Dahl, as you may or may not know, wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among other things. This is no "Charlie". I found this book extremely mean-spirited and grotesque. I tried to imagine it being appealing to anyone. Maybe little boys who like to pull the wings off of insects... Bullies... ( Read more... )

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Book Review No. 8 is Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America.  Author Dianne Harris demonstrates that one need not test any hypotheses, let alone carefully frame any hypotheses, if the book's message reinforces the gatekeepers at the University of Minnesota Press in their prejudices.

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