“Beware of the person of one book.”
Thomas Aquinas
Reading is one of the most important tools we have for learning about ourselves and the world we live in. But when our bookshelves only reflect what we see in the mirror, we lose out on that opportunity for learning. This space is dedicated to meaningful learning, starting with diversifying the books we read.
Diversity in Authors
Part of what makes books so powerful is the experience that authors’ bring to the story. They bring their genders, faiths, sexualities, races, and cultures.
Read something different.
Diversity in Genres
We all have preferences: fiction or non-fiction, mysteries or dystopias, knights-in-shining-armor or true-love’s-kisses. They introduce us to worlds unlike our own.
Read something different.
Diversity in Audience
Some books are best to read alone on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Some are best to read with a group of friends over coffee. Some are best to read to a child before bedtime.
Read something different.
A Space on the Shelf hopes to introduce you to something different to add to your bookshelf.
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
E.B. White
Currently Reading
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Abuelita Faith by Kat Armas
- A Disability History of the United States by Kethleen Nielsen
- The Couple’s Guide to Thriving with ADHD by Melissa Orlov & Nancie Kohlennberger
- Black Theology and Black Power by James H Cone
- The Genesee Diary by Henri JM Nouwen
- The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkein
Next on the List
- Shades of Sheol by Philip S Johnston
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Forbidden Words by Keith Allan & Kate BurridgeHow to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
- Lost Women of the Bible by Carolyn Custis James
- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
- Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
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