While this is not necessarily a book that I would usually drift towards, I look forward to reading Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson. Instead of providing a sanitized and filtered version of civil rights history, one that is comfortable and easy to swallow, Theoharis forces readers to come to terms with a version of history that is historically accurate and as the title suggests, more “beautiful and terrible.” and Rosa Parks, as individuals who imagined a radical reconstruction of American society. Rather than continuing the common narrative that civil rights activists were accidental and passive heroes and heroines, Theoharis portrays activists, such as Martin Luther King Jr. I’m looking forward to being transported to 1920s Cambridge and London and the ever-fascinating Bloomsbury group.Ī More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, by Jeanne Theoharis, is a book that paints the civil rights movement and prominent civil rights activists in a different light.
Firebird: A Bloomsbury Love Story is a fictional account of the love story of the Russian ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova and the economist and intellectual John Maynard Keynes. Talty, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, writes beautifully and unflinchingly about family, friendship, and community in a narrative that is both raw and tender.įor my vacation next month, I’m packing the new novel by Susan Sellers. I just finished reading the interlinked collection of stories set in a native community in Maine, which are deeply affecting.
My “must read” recommendation is Night of the Living Rez by Dartmouth alumnus Morgan Talty ’16. What book would they recommend as a must-read to a friend or colleague? What are they going to read on vacation, even if it wouldn’t make it onto their office bookshelf?įrom essays proposing ways to find hope amid political and environmental crises, to a fictional love story of the Russian ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova and economist John Maynard Keynes, to works by President Emeritus James Wright, Morgan Talty ’16, and trustee Jake Tapper ’91, there are plenty of engaging reads to fill out anyone’s summer reading list. With many people headed to the beach or a cabin in the days ahead, Dartmouth News asked several community members to share their summer reading suggestions.
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